Hyper V Windows Xp Network Driver

[Irati Klute]

Itall works as advertised up to the point where the restore process wants to load the network drivers (it only finds 4 disk drivers on the restore CD. but no network drivers). So I created a virtual floppy and copied the contents of 'Home Server Drivers for Restore onto it. But no luck! I have tried moving the 4 subdirectories into the root of the floppy, but that didn't work either. Finally, I started another instance of the WS 2008 to identify the network driver that the virtualized instance is using (%WINDOWS%\system32\drivers\netvsc60.sys) and copied that file onto the virtual floppy, without success.

To be sure we are talking about the same thing: You fire up Windows XP in Hyper-V and then, immediately after logon, you get a screen which tells you that Windows must be activated, and your virtualized system (apparently) does not let you do anything else.

In that "registration screen", there should be three options, among them an option like that (I can't remember the exact wording): "Telephone service to activate Windows" or perhaps "Activate Windows by phone" or such. If you can see this option, then why not try it? I have done that several times for customers, and in every case, the service representatives were very friendly and just asked if we did use that Windows copy on other PCs (of course, we didn't). Then they passed our call to some automated system which told us some activation code - problem solved. If you mistrust them, you could suppress your caller ID for that call ...

2) Now, hoping that Internet Explorer is your standard browser, if you click on that help link, Internet Explorer will open (please tell us if Internet Explorer isn't your standard browser - I don't want to make it too complicated here).

5) Connect a USB stick to your PC which contains the drivers for the network card which Hyper-V simulates, i.e. the drivers for the virtual network card Windows XP is seeing from within its VM, and make sure that the VM / Windows XP is seeing that USB stick (you may have to change your VM configuration for that, bus as as said above, I don't know anything about Hyper-V).

7) If you have a standard configuration (i.e. DHCP server somewhere), then chances are that the Internet works now. In that case, you can now do the activation via Internet. Otherwise, after having installed the drivers, you will have to do the network configuration first.

If you have a problem with one of the steps above, then describe the problem as precise as possible, including screenshots if possible, but at least telling us the literal error messages (if applicable).

Sometimes Hyper-V has problem with Internet connectivity under some operating systems.I have not analyzed the cause of the problem, as the work-around is very simple,but perhaps it is the lack of a matching network driver.The work-around is to connect instead the VM to the physical card,under the limitation that an XP driver is available for it.However, I note that I never needed to install an additional network driverfor XP, kudos perhaps to its excellently-written generic network driver.

With drivers loaded, I restarted the server (probably not necessary but I wanted to ensure that all services were running) and Hyper-V Server recognised the network card, allowing me to make configuration changes if required.

I built a couple hyper-v servers for experimentation using ASUS p5k pro motherboards with 8 gigs of ram and a quad core Q6600 processor. (Great bang for your buck/pound/euro/pickyourcurrency :-) ) Anyway, they have marvell 1-Gig network cards plus I have other PCI-e Marval NICs too. Now they all work like they should have.

I started with the recommendations enumerated on the "Get official Windows XP virtual machine for Hyper-V" question. I was able to get a new Windows XP SP3 virtual machine installation. However, there was a problem with this installation, as it could not finish successfully. Several critical drivers were missing, and this makes the virtual machine unusable.

Then, I found the missing software drivers problem in the form of the "No VGA and sound driver installed in XP guest machine in Hyper-v virtualization" question. Unfortunately, this question remains unsolved. The responses provided so far by the community are either incomplete, inconclusive or out of scope.

The more research I conduct on this topic, the closer I get to the conclusion that this is not going to be achievable. I would like feedback from the community to confirm or deny this thesis.

After the installation completes, you'll need to manually install the Integration Components (IC). (Same as the answer I provided on the other post you linked)You will need to get the IC from an older version of Hyper-V. I have them on my wordpress site here: -iso-for-older-windows-oses-in-win102016/

In addition to leveraging the default 'nat' network created by Docker on Windows, users can define custom container networks. User-defined networks can be created using the Docker CLI docker network create -d command. On Windows, the following network driver types are available:

Containers attached to a network created with the 'nat' driver will be connected to an internal Hyper-V switch and receive an IP address from the user-specified (--subnet) IP prefix. Port forwarding / mapping from the container host to container endpoints is supported.

Containers attached to a network created with the 'transparent' driver will be directly connected to the physical network through an external Hyper-V switch. IPs from the physical network can be assigned statically (requires user-specified --subnet option) or dynamically using an external DHCP server.

Popularly used by containers orchestrators such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, containers attached to an overlay network can communicate with other containers attached to the same network across multiple container hosts. Each overlay network is created with its own IP subnet, defined by a private IP prefix. The overlay network driver uses VXLAN encapsulation to achieve network traffic isolation between tenant container networks and enables re-using IP addresses across overlay networks.

On Windows Server 2019 and above, overlay networks created by Docker Swarm leverage VFP NAT rules for outbound connectivity. This means that a given container receives 1 IP address. It also means that ICMP-based tools such as ping or Test-NetConnection should be configured using their TCP/UDP options in debugging situations.

Containers attached to a network created with the 'l2bridge' driver will be connected to the physical network through an external Hyper-V switch. In l2bridge, container network traffic will have the same MAC address as the host due to Layer-2 address translation (MAC re-write) operation on ingress and egress. In datacenters, this helps alleviate the stress on switches having to learn MAC addresses of sometimes short-lived containers. L2bridge networks can be configured in 2 different ways:

Creation is identical to l2bridge, however this driver should only be used in a Microsoft Cloud Stack (Azure). The only difference over l2bridge is that all container traffic is sent to the virtualization host where SDN policy is applied, thereby enabling features such as Azure Network Security Groups for containers.

IP Addresses are allocated and assigned differently for each networking driver. Windows uses the Host Networking Service (HNS) to provide IPAM for the nat driver and works with Docker Swarm Mode (internal KVS) to provide IPAM for overlay. All other network drivers use an external IPAM.

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All is well except one of the two virtual machines will lose network connectivity completely without apparent reason. Reviewing the event log did not find anything obvious. Disabling/enabling the virtual adapter or even restarting the affected virtual machine did not restore network connectivity either. The issue disappears if you restart the entire HP server which to me is not acceptable especially once system is in production.

After much research online, I confirmed it's a known issue per Microsoft KB 2986895. Supposedly either updating the driver of the network adapter to the latest version or disabling VMQ should resolve the issue.

What puzzled me is that all the network adapters on this HP ProLiant server are already running the latest version of the driver after I applied the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP). Per Microsoft KB above, VMQ should be disabled on all of the 1-gigabit physical network adapters used by virtual machines.

I went a step further by following this link and disabling VMQ within both virtual machines as a precaution. As soon as this was completed, network connectivity of the affected machine was restored instantly without any reboot.

When doing any deployment now OSD deployment fails on "preparing network connections" ?I have recently upgraded all my lab to 2012 R2 servers and SCCM 2012 R2 I have built from scratch again.My deployments did work ok when it was all server 2012/sccm 2012 sp1 .I was thinking possibly need some sort of network drivers in the boot image - but my lab is all on a windows 8 hyper-v vm's and did not need to inject driver packages when it was the previous svr 2012/sccm 2012 SP1 enviroment ?

Make sure you've enabled debugging and press F8 went it boots up, make sure you;re getting an ip address. Although with it being hyper-v i'd imagine they drivers are inbox drivers and should be part of winPE. I've not played with hyper V much but I know on vmware you can set to a default legacy NIC.

I had exactly the same issue today and went into debugging after preparing network connection and there was no IP. I injected the correct driver into the boot image, re-distributed and this time it worked.

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