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I'm trying to set up a Vista 64 bit guest on a Kubuntu 64 bit host. The network adaptor shows as broken (yellow exclamation mark icon) in Device Manager; it says the driver is installed okay, but that "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to to disable one of the other devices on this system." Any idea how I can get it working? It's not as if there's all that many devices present that I could disable anyway...

Lots more detail follows, in case any of it helps.

This was a new installation of Kubuntu 9.04 64 bit. My user is in the vboxusers group. Initially I installed VirtualBox OSE that I found in the package manager, but when I subsequently discovered this didn't include USB support I removed it and installed the latest PUEL version instead. I had already been seeing this problem, however.

I set up a new VM with 1Gb RAM and a 50Gb dynamic drive image. SATA drive controller for the .vdi (since I read in the docs/site that even virtually this has better performance than IDE), and Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network adaptor (using NAT) as the docs mentioned there is no 64 bit driver for the AMD adaptors. ACPI, IO APIC, and all the hardware virtualisation options (VT-x/AMD-V, Nested Paging, PAE/NX) are enabled since the docs say you have to use hardware for 64 bit OSes. Pulse host audio driver, ICH AC97 guest audio, USB enabled.

I started the VM, mounted the first of the recovery DVDs that came with the PC, and ran the "full destructive" Vista installation option. Changed DVDs when it asked etc., the installation ran through without any problems. However, after "rebooting" and logging in, the system tray icons for network and audio showed them to be unavailable. Checking device manager, a number of devices (network adapter, graphics adaptor, USB controllers) show up as broken, with the message quoted above, and a couple of others (Base System Device, Multimedia Audio Controller) say there's no driver installed. I tried the Reinstall Driver option, but it doesn't find one in C:\Applications\Drivers.

No USB is a bit worrying, since that's why I switched from OSE to PUEL in the first place. The sound I'm not overly worried about, as other postings here say you need to install the realtek driver from the update centre. But to get that far I need the network to be working, so that's my first priority. Asides from the usual suspects under System devices, there's not really a lot of other devices listed in there, nothing obvious that I could disable. Any suggestions what else I need to do to get this working? Thanks.


Andy

Download the intel LAN drivers and use a CD to get them into the VM.

I suspect the real problem here is:

I started the VM, mounted the first of the recovery DVDs that came with the PC, and ran the "full destructive" Vista installation option.

I have never seen these work correctly and not at all sure it is even legal.

vbox4me2 wrote:Download the intel LAN drivers and use a CD to get them into the VM.

Done that - downloaded the latest driver from Intel's web site, used to make a CD image, which I then mounted in the virtual machine and ran the installer. Shut down and restarted the VM just for good measure. I now have a bunch of extra tabs in the device's properties in device manager, mostly disabled because there's no connection, and it still tells me there's a driver installed but that it doesn't work due to a lack of resources...

Could be that the recovery dvd's have fixed resources tied to vendors hardware which isn't there in a VM.