Vista - W7: VPC cannot load virtual network driver

I've installed VPC SP1 twice on W7, and both times it says that it can't
open the Virtual Machine Network Services driver.

Does anyone know how to fix this? How does one re-enable the driver on a
particular network adapter?

Thanks,
Dean

"DPM" <dm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Following the Vista-specific instructions here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...etworking.aspx -
IIRC, the Vista instructions are also valid for Windows 7.


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Mark Rae
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Mark,

That's the ticket - worked like a charm.

Thanks for your help,
Dean

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have tried all of the intstructions for on the Virtual PC blog about
removing and adding the Virtual Network Services driver back into Vista.
Still I cannot get Virtual PC 2007 SP1 to recognize the driver. I've
uninstalled/re-installed, short of rebuilding the whole machine, I'm stumped.

The driver shows loaded and bound to the NIC, but I still get the message
from VPC that it cannot load the virtual network services driver. Short of
rebuilding my laptop are there any other fixes out there other than this?

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:37:04 -0700, Mike S
<MikeS@xxxxxx> wrote:
Your problem is that the driver for your NIC in the host computer is
incompatible with the VNS driver.
You need an updated driver from the NIC/PC maker or another NIC with a
compatible driver.
No need to rebuild the host, it won't help.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Bo -

Thanks for the reply. I should have stated, this was working previously.
Something (patches?) happened to my machine that has caused this to stop
working.
The NIC is Intel(R) 82566MM Gigabit Network Connector.

When I look at the properties for the Virtual Machine Network Driver all of
the fields are blank, which seems odd to me. Also when I view the devices
from Device Mangler, and show hidden devices, the Virtual adapters don't show
up.

>The NIC is Intel(R) 82566MM Gigabit Network Connector.

Maybe an update to this driver did it -- try rolling back to a
previous version of the driver.

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Bob Comer


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:53:05 -0700, Mike S
<MikeS@xxxxxx> wrote:

Robert/Bo -

Thanks for the replies. I did sort of the opposite and checked for an
updated driver for the NIC. It found one installed it, rebooted, and then
virtual machine networking services was back.

Thanks again.

Cool, glad to hear it!

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Bob Comer


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:20:03 -0700, Mike S
<MikeS@xxxxxx> wrote: