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No network connection with Hyper V Virtual Server in Windows 2008

Hello Experts,

I have an eval version of Windows 2008 server running on a machine for testing and I am using the Hyper V service to run a virtual server within 2008. The virtual server is windows 2003. Both OS's are 64 bit and I was able to install both of them successfully.

However, on the virtual server I can not make a connection to the internet. In the Hyper V settings for the network card it is showing as a broadcom net extreme card (DELL server) and it is enabled on the 2008 server machine but it still fails to connect. However in the 2003 virtual server under "Manage Network Connections" the NIC does not even appear.

Evrything else seems to be running well with the exception of connecting to the internet. Any help with this issue will be greatly appreciated. If there is any info I am leaving out please let me know and I will repost it.

Thanks in advance!

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abreilly

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Thanks for the response and I will keep all of this in mind. We ended up using MS Virtual PC as all I am lookinng for is any type of connection for testing. SInce you are the onlyone that responded you get all the points.

Thanks again I appreciate it.

mihaisz

Apply SP2 for Win 2003, then install the integration services on the virtual machine (Action | Insert Integration Services Setup Disk). If this does not launch automatically the Integration Services setup, go to Windows Explorer, right click on integration services and click autoplay.
The integration services will install the network adaptor

fixer982

I had the same issue and found that Integration Services had not actually installed the first time, so repeated the Integration Services install and up came the NIC on the Guest Server.