Issue with the NIC driver for Windows 7 in VMWare

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It’s been a while that I wanted to try the windows 7 beta so yesterday I loaded the ISO in virtual machine using VMWare. The install went fine but when windows started it didn’t detect the NIC.

So after going through some forums here is the solution:

- Shut down the VM.

- Open the .vmx file associated with the machine in notepad

- Add this line at the bottom of the file

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

- Start the VM

That’s it!