The UserManual.pdf of 2.1.4 states: Windows Vista no longer ships a driver for the AMD PCnet Ethernet card that VirtualBox provides to the guest by default [.]. As a convenience, VirtualBox ships with a 32-bit driver for the AMD PCnet card, which comes with the Windows Guest Additions.
I recently installed Windows XP on oracle VirtualBox, after the installation I noticed that I couldn’t access the internet. I had no internet access. Here are the steps I took to fix the issue.
Because we don’t have internet or network access we would need to install guest additions to share files between the host computer and the guest OS, in this case Windows XP.
To start click on Devices tab then click on Insert Guest Additions CD image… from the drop down menu.
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The default installation of guest additions is a straight forward process, click next to the wizard, next to the installation location, and Install on the Choose components window.
Once guest additions has installed, select “I want to manually reboot later” and click on finish.
Then shut down the guest Windows XP in oracle VirtualBox.
Now from the host PC download Network Adapter Drivers for Windows XPdepending on the version of Windows XP installed, whether is is 32 or 64 bit OS.
You might be prompted to accept the license terms, agree to download. The drivers executable will download in a zip file to the downloads folder.
Then create a shared folder on the desktop to be shared with everyone and copy the drivers zip file from the downloads folder to the shared folder. This shared folder is to be shared with the guest OS Windows XP.
Once done open Oracle VirtualBox, select the Windows XP guest OS and click on Settings on the top.
From the left pane select Shared Folders, on the right click on add folder icon,This will open the Add Share window, here to the right of Folder Path click on the down arrow to browse and select the shared folder from the host PC.
Then check mark “Auto-mount” and click on OK.
Also navigate to Network and make sure “Enable Network Adapter” is checked. Once done click on Ok, and start the Win XP guest OS in oracle virtualBox
Navigate to My Computer, you should be able to locate the shared folder.
Access the folder and double click to extract and run the Windows XP drivers executable. The default installation process is very simple just agree the the license terms and install.
Once you finish the installation you’ll be ready to access the internet and shared network folders.
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I'm a sysadmin at a building controls company. We are trying to revive a Building Management Server with very expensive and important software on it. I cannot for the life of me, install a single network adapter.
Their server died, so I backed up the hard drive and installed it in another computer. Loaded up ultimate boot disk, changed the registry keys (removed drivers and change processor type), then booted into windows.
Thinking I was almost done, I tried installing the onboard LAN adapter with no success. After trying over 5 different adapters including wireless cards and staying at the office till 2am, we still cannot get this server operational.I have created an image and finally have the server as a virtual machine, yet can't even get the LAN adapter working with that!
Running out of ideas and a new installation of windows isn't possible due to licensing limitations.
I just need this server with a network adapter installed.Can anyone think of anything else to try? I can't let this computer beat me..
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As someone who has more experience in this type of thing than I'd like, I'd advise you to see if you can buy the same or similar hardware as was running this thing previously in order to sidestep the driver issue. At the very least, you want hardware from the same era, because as you're finding out, modern hardware is built to run modern operating systems, and generally doesn't bother to support old operating systems. There are probably local computer recyclers who can help you out with locating old hardware, and failing that, there are always online options, many of which specialize in obsolete hardware for this very reason.
Need to buy a a 15 year old server, such as an HP Proliant ML350 (Gen2) because of its NT 4.0 and Server 2000 support? Well, there's someone out there who'll be happy to dust one off for you in exchange for $1300. There's another guy who'll do it for a grand, and any number of others who will do it a lot cheaper if you know where to look. It's usually worth looking, too, as the standard solution to the issue of ICS vendors that can't be bothered to make their gear compatible with computing technology from the current millennium is to find hardware that works and stockpile it.
If you're smart, you have all your stockpiled replacements imaged up and ready to go on a moment's notice too, so whenever whatever computer is currently running your ICS software dies, it's just a matter of grabbing another one off the shelf and swapping it out for the dead one. There's a state-of-the-art, relatively new datacenter a few miles away from me that uses this very trick for their HVAC system - a small, unassuming little whitebox PC running Windows '95 is connected to the HVAC system by a very long serial cable, and is the unsung hero responsible for keeping the datacenter cool. And last I checked, there were 4 more identical whitebox PCs sitting on a shelf, waiting to be swapped in when the one currently doing the job gives up the ghost.
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You didn't mention what VM hosting solution you tried, but I know that Wiondows XP runs just fine in Virtualbox. Whether you try that, or bare metal hardware, I agree with joeqwerty. Clone a new image and don't do any registry hacks. The original NIC won't show up in Device Manager, but is still referenced in the registry. Therefore, you won't be able to use the same IP address as before. However, you should be able to install a new NIC and use a new IP address.