Guest Wm.Holden Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Here's my situation: I'm a college student taking courses on Server 2003. The only machine I have to put it on is my Gateway MX6453 laptop, which is running Vista Business. I have Virtual PC 2007 and have Server 2003 Enterprise Edition running on a Virtual machine allocated with 25 GB of disk space and 1 GB of memory. Problem: Drivers, drivers, drivers. Question: Which ones do I use? All I can find are the XP drivers for my equipment. Are these compatible with Server 2003, are the drivers based on the same principles like Windows 2000 and XP? Thanks for reading this...any replies will be appreciated.
Guest Guest Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Re: Server 2K3 on a laptop...in Virtual PC you not need any drivers for VP. "Wm.Holden" <Wm.Holden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ABD5760D-92FA-422F-A1BA-F4A4E28DCF82@microsoft.com... > Here's my situation: I'm a college student taking courses on Server 2003. > The only machine I have to put it on is my Gateway MX6453 laptop, which is > running Vista Business. I have Virtual PC 2007 and have Server 2003 > Enterprise Edition running on a Virtual machine allocated with 25 GB of > disk > space and 1 GB of memory. > > Problem: Drivers, drivers, drivers. > > Question: Which ones do I use? All I can find are the XP drivers for my > equipment. Are these compatible with Server 2003, are the drivers based > on > the same principles like Windows 2000 and XP? > > Thanks for reading this...any replies will be appreciated.
Guest Wm.Holden Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: Server 2K3 on a laptop...in Virtual PC Thank you for the response, it didn't answer my question, but made me think and look further into the problem. The problem manifested like a missing driver issue, but was in fact a Virtual PC misconfiguration. I was not drawing an IP address like I was used to on the machines at school. No one had mentioned the need to change the network settings in VPC to Shared Networking rather than my network connection in Vista. After some further research, I found out that this emulates connecting to a NAT enabled router, allowing you to draw an IP address and channel through to your native OS's network connection. "info_at_imibo_dot_com" wrote: > you not need any drivers for VP. > > "Wm.Holden" <Wm.Holden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:ABD5760D-92FA-422F-A1BA-F4A4E28DCF82@microsoft.com... > > Here's my situation: I'm a college student taking courses on Server 2003. > > The only machine I have to put it on is my Gateway MX6453 laptop, which is > > running Vista Business. I have Virtual PC 2007 and have Server 2003 > > Enterprise Edition running on a Virtual machine allocated with 25 GB of > > disk > > space and 1 GB of memory. > > > > Problem: Drivers, drivers, drivers. > > > > Question: Which ones do I use? All I can find are the XP drivers for my > > equipment. Are these compatible with Server 2003, are the drivers based > > on > > the same principles like Windows 2000 and XP? > > > > Thanks for reading this...any replies will be appreciated. > > >
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