Topic: How to change the network adapter driver?

[pa0nx]

I am trying to run SME under VMM (FC8, Virtual Machine Manager). When I install standalone I get during the install an option to manualy select the ethernet driver. (on it's own it will pick the wrong one).  The one I need is the Forcedeth (MCP51) and then the internet tests works fine.

Under VMM it skips the option to manually select the proper adapter. It apparently selected the RTL8139C driver instead while I need the nVidia Ethernet controller (Forcedeth).  The internet test fails.

How can I change the driver?  (Note: going to option2. Configure this server does not give you the option)

Note Hard/Software
FC8_64, SME7.2
(nvidia) for MOBO Asus M2NPV-VM

[cactus]

I am trying to run SME under VMM (FC8, Virtual Machine Manager). When I install standalone I get during the install an option to manualy select the ethernet driver. (on it's own it will pick the wrong one).  The one I need is the Forcedeth (MCP51) and then the internet tests works fine.

Under VMM it skips the option to manually select the proper adapter. It apparently selected the RTL8139C driver instead while I need the nVidia Ethernet controller (Forcedeth).  The internet test fails.

How can I change the driver?  (Note: going to option2. Configure this server does not give you the option)

Note Hard/Software
FC8_64, SME7.2
(nvidia) for MOBO Asus M2NPV-VM

When you are running in a virtual environment the network card is also emulated, so it might well be that it presents itself to the guest OS as a RTL8139C (a broadly supported NIC) and uses the correct driver in the host OS, it might also just be the first in the list that is selected (I do not know the order from the top of my head). Are you sure that the virtual environment does not emulate in the guest OS and gives you the same hardware as the real hardware that is in the host OS?

In other virtualization packages, such as VMWare you will have to load a other (VMWare propriety) driver manually (mostly by use of some script) this might be the case for VMM as well, but I do not know this package.