Re: [Xen-users] Question about Vista Pro

Igor Chubin
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:22:01 -0000

On Mi, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:42:17 +1100, milo randy wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> recently i installed Vista professional on our xen machine. The
installation
> ran fine however
> the networking for the machine would not work.
>
> we were able to install network drivers for the machine and in tcpdump we
> could see the arp requestes being sent and recieved from the vista instance
> but otherwise could get no other networking working on the machine.


Yes,

I have seen the problem before.
The problem was solved by changing
emulated rtl8139 to ne2000.

Take a look at this post for example:
http://phaq.phunsites.net/2007/05/21/vista-on-xen-using-ne2000-in-favor-to-rtl8139/
http://xgu.ru/wiki/Xen/vista  (in russian, but there are useful
screenshots and config files)

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WBR, i.m.chubin