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Have you disabled the NIC?<br />
Perhaps disable 'connect on boot'<br />
Change the NIC to a different mode.
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Have you disabled the NIC?
Perhaps disable 'connect on boot'
Change the NIC to a different mode.

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Nope this is not it.. But I did see that before and tested and also tested again.<br />
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Thanks though
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Nope this is not it.. But I did see that before and tested and also tested again.

Thanks though

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I just installed VMWare on Server 2003 x64. &nbsp;I thought I have done this before but after installing on new machine I am not sure if x64 Windows 2003 is compatible with VMWare.<br />
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I can runn VMs but after I create the basic machine and go to install the OS such as XP it bypasses the cdrom and tries to start up with DHCP. This obviously comes to a failure since there is no preboot nic.<br />
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Attached is a pic of what it is doing. &nbsp;I have seen this before and got an answer long time ago but cannot find the answer thru search or thru the settings.<br />
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Help?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
Steve<br />
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I just installed VMWare on Server 2003 x64.  I thought I have done this before but after installing on new machine I am not sure if x64 Windows 2003 is compatible with VMWare.

I can runn VMs but after I create the basic machine and go to install the OS such as XP it bypasses the cdrom and tries to start up with DHCP. This obviously comes to a failure since there is no preboot nic.

Attached is a pic of what it is doing.  I have seen this before and got an answer long time ago but cannot find the answer thru search or thru the settings.

Help?

Thanks
Steve

Cannot Create new VMWare machine OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.