
Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems
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hang. However, if you press Alt-Tab, you can bring the warning message to the
foreground. There are two types of messages.
• A message that says the driver is not Authenticode signed. When you see one of
these messages, click Install Now to continue installing VMware Tools.
• A message that says the driver package is not compatible with Longhorn. When
you see one of these messages, click Cancel to continue installing VMware Tools.
You may also see a message asking you to restart before the VMware Tools installer
has finished. Do not restart the guest operating system at that time. Wait until the
Installation Wizard Completed screen appears, click Finish, then restart the guest
operating system when you are prompted to do so.
Ethernet Adapter in Certain Longhorn Builds
The AMD Ethernet card driver included with certain Longhorn builds — including
4074 and possibly others — does not work correctly. To use networking in these
Longhorn guest operating systems, you must switch to the vmxnet network adapter.
A driver for this adapter is included in VMware Tools.
VMware GSX Server on a Linux host: Choose VM > Settings, select Network
Adapter, then select vmxnet as the virtual device to use. You may install VMware
Tools either before or after changing the virtual network adapter.
VMware GSX Server on a Windows host: Choose VM > Settings, select NIC, then
select vmxnet as the virtual device to use. You may install VMware Tools either before
or after changing the virtual network adapter.
VMware Workstation on a Linux host: Choose VM > Settings, select Network
Adapter, then select vmxnet as the virtual device to use. You must install VMware
Tools after changing the virtual network adapter.
VMware Workstation on a Windows host: Use a text editor such as Notepad to edit
the configuration (.vmx) file for your Longhorn virtual machine. Add the following
line:
Ethernet[n].virtualDev = "vmxnet"
Replace [n] with the number of the Ethernet adapter. The first Ethernet adapter is
number 0, so the line for that adapter is
Ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"
Include a line for each Ethernet adapter configured for the virtual machine. You may
install VMware Tools either before or after changing the virtual network adapter.
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