I installed a Virtual Machine with SBS 2003 R2 SP2 on a SBS 2008 Host server. Normally, two computers with SBS in a network will never work, however should the VM with SBS 2003 nevertheless work on a SBS 2008 host computer?
If yes, with what specific settings. So I do not want the guest to connect to the host (like when creating e computer network) but I do want the guest system to make use of the physical network card in order to have access to internet.
Specifically (VM):
- Under network connections: no connections are shown
- If I follow the wizard New Connection it reports in the end that the connection is already configured (although none shows??)
- If I try the wizard Connect to internet in the servermanagement console it reports 'at least one networkadapter should be enabled'
- Under the VMWare Devices option Network Adapter it shows 'Connected to bridged network on server' (although greyed out)
- Under Hardware -> devicemanagement a networkadapter is shown 'AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet adapter' reporting error: device doesn't start.
- Under device management of the host PC this adapter is not in the list, but instead :
- a Marvell Yuklon Gigabt adapter (that one is set to disabled)
- a Realtek RTL8139/810x Family adapter
- a VMWare virtual eethernet adapter for VMNet1
- a VMWare virtual eethernet adapter for VMNet8
- In the VMWare Summary tab of teh VM it shows:
- Connected
- Connect at power on
- Bridged
- mac adress generated by the host
- virtual device type: flexible
and under status:
- DNS name: not available
- IP adresses: not available