Restoring a Desktop Image to a VMware Virtual Machine with Windows Home Server – Jay R. Wren

Copy the restorecd.iso from \\homeserver\Software\Home PC Restore CD to your VMware server.
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.
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.
Boot the Virtual Machine and follow the prompts.

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Epic 😀 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.

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