VMWare network drivers for WinPE 3.0
When capturing a reference image using VMWare Workstation/Server your WinPE image needs the right nic driver to contact the Deployment Share.
Here is how to obtain and inject these vmware drivers into your WinPE boot image.
First download the drivers from VMWare (link updated Sept 2010). (PCnet Family network adapter, NDIS5 Driver)
Import them (I used \WinXP_SignedDriver\netamd.inf, pcntpci5.cat and PCNTPCI5.sys) into your deployment share:
Make sure drivers are injected into your WinPE images:
And rebuild the Deployment Share, to regenerate the WinPE boot images.
Last step: import the new WinPE boot images into your PXE boot server. (or rewrite your bootcd’s with the WinPE ISO file)
look like the wmware link point to…. AMD…
Can you give us the good one
thanks
Diagg
These are AMD drivers indeed. The link used to point to the right drivers at the AMD website. But AMD changed their website, and gave us a dead link :’(
I will try to find them elsewhere. If someone has a correct url, please make a comment and help us out.
Found the AMD PCNet family NDIS5 Windows driver version 4.51 here:
http://vip.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/V4.51.zip
I will update the link in my post.
many thanks
Download link was dead again, stored the AMD PCNet family NDIS5 Windows driver locally.
Link updated.
Here are the WinPe 3.0 Drivers for Windows Server 2008:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1011710