It was Hyper v and I just found out that Hyper v has linux integration disc you have to run. Thanks
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Browse All TopicsI have a rhel 5 installed on a virtual machine dell r900 which has a broadcom 5708 gigabit ethernet controller. I have assigned the network controller to the Virtual Machine and rhel 5 installs and works fine. I have no networking. I have downlead the dell broadcom network drivers for linux and installed them. But when I go to networking I do not see a eth0 or eth1. How do I install the drivers and get networking to work?
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by: rindiPosted on 2009-08-13 at 01:15:44ID: 25086209
A virtual Machine uses virtual network adapter Drivers, it doesn't directly access the hardware. So only your VM Host needs the actual driver loaded.
VMware for example then uses "VMware Tools" which you load into the VM, and those tools then provide the best drivers for your Guest OS.