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Restoring a Desktop Image to a VMware Virtual Machine with Windows Home Server

  1. Copy the restorecd.iso from \\homeserver\Software\Home PC Restore CD to your VMware server.
  2. Configure a new VMware virtual machine with an appropriately sized disk, a network adapter (I prefer bridged) and a CD ROM Drive pointed to said restorecd.iso from step 1. Do not start the VM at the last step.
  3. Find the vmx file created in step 2. Add a line ethernet0.virtualDev= “e1000”.  This the required trick step since Windows Home Server doesn’t have a driver for the LANCE network chip which vmware normally emulates.
  4. Boot the Virtual Machine and follow the prompts.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pm and is filed under Networking, Windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Restoring a Desktop Image to a VMware Virtual Machine with Windows Home Server”

  1. microsoft wireless network adapter says:
    December 19, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Epic :D I found this site on Yahoo searching for something completely unrelated- and now I’m gonna need to go back and read all the old posts XD So much for my spare time today, but this was a spectacular find.