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Catch 22
I have an unused Win 8 upgrade key and want to use it in VMware Player running in Win 7. As it's an upgrade key I can't use it for a clean install (I've tried) so I'm having to install some other windows version first and then use Microsoft's Upgrade Windows with only a product key - Windows Help to download and install Win 8. Rather to my surprise this upgrade (of XP) appeared to work just fine and what had previously been an XP VM booted up into Win 8. Whoopee.....Uhoooh, no internet connection, whether using Bridged or NAT, and despite the fact that the VM can see both of the host's network adapters in its settings.
After some head scratching as far as I can make out this appears to be being caused by the fact that VMs do not have their own network adapters, they use those on the host. So when 8 was installing over XP in the VM and didn't find any adapters to install drivers for it just left it and moved on. That might be wrong of course but it fits the facts.
So my question is whether anyone can dream up some way to get my Win 8 VM to recognise the host's adapters and connect. I'm not hopeful but you never know
EDIT - yeah, I know there is a Win 8 forum but I think I have a better chance of a fix here.
Last edited by BJB; 03 Aug 2014 at 13:45.