I had exact same missing drivers for Ethernet/Audio/PCI on my Win7 HP - 64bit upgrade from XP, but came across this archived post from an earlier rev. Effectively, I reinstalled my Parallel Tools on the VM & it picked up the missing drivers and fixed the issue for me. I believe v4 for Mac now has option under virtual machine to reinstall Tools, but I used this earlier post's CD Image Connect approach and it worked for me too.
Hope this works for each of you, too.
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PDM RC2 and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Jun 14, 2006, 02:06 PM#1
Sharkus
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Join: Apr 2006
Posts: 84 PDM RC2 and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Afternoon all,
Perhaps I'm missing something here. I've got 2003 Enterprise installed, however, when I look in device manager I have a missing ethernet controller, not to handy for a server
One assumed that perhaps the Paralles VM Tools might contain one, however when I go to the VM menu in Parallels the Install VM Tools command is greyed out. Anyone know why?
What is it that I'm missing here?
Jun 14, 2006, 02:24 PM#2
Sharkus
Member
Join: Apr 2006
Posts: 84 OK, after using my brain, I worked out what to do...
I use the "connect image" option for the CD and selected the vmtools.iso, which is found at /Library/Parallels/Tools/
Once I did that the image autoplayed and installed the various drivers.
I'm not sure why the menu item was greyed out though, and it remains so, as does the Parallels Compressor menu item, though I'm guessing that also can be run using the same method as there is an iso for it in the same Tools folder.
