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Hello all,

I'm having some problems with the ethernet on my VM. It is windowsXP in the VM which is running on Win7. Every time I start the VM, I am prompted to install an ethernet driver.

I cannot get access to the internet (because there is no network) and I cannot seem to find any drivers which work.

Does anyone know where I can find some drivers or what I can do about this?

Thanks

The default XP network interface card (NIC) in VirtualBox is the default because XP has native drivers for it, right off the shelf. If your XP has a NIC which it doesn't have a driver for then you either :-

1. Changed from the default NIC type to something else.
2. Are not using a kosher copy of Windows XP (e.g. it's tinyXP or similar).

I can't think of any other explanation.

If you go to the Network Settings of your VM, then you can click on advanced set the adapter type to "PCnet", which will be automatically installed by a original version of XP.
If you set it to Intel PRO/1000 then you can use the drivers from Intel:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... ldId=18717
You can create a .iso Image to get the driver inside the VM.

scp wrote:If you go to the Network Settings of your VM, then you can click on advanced set the adapter type to "PCnet", which will be automatically installed by a original version of XP.
If you set it to Intel PRO/1000 then you can use the drivers from Intel:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... ldId=18717
You can create a .iso Image to get the driver inside the VM.

Thank you.