After Installing a Windows 7 VM on VMware Server 2.0, you do not have network access and no network adapter is present.

Install Windows 7 On VMware Server 2.0

I installed a Windows 7 VM, but because VMware does not officially support Windows 7 yet, it does not show up as on option under the guest Windows OS choices. I was not sure which option to choose so I proceeded with the install using Other as the OS. After choosing the hardware configuration the install started and seemed to finish just fine without any errors. The VM came up and everything looked good until I tried to get on the network. I was not getting and IP address and there was no network adapter present. I had other VMs working just fine so I knew there was no problem with the network configuration. After a little bit of research I found out that VMware Tools was not installed because I did not select one of the pre-configured choices for guest OS. I tried to do a manual install of VMware Tools and it failed.

Install VMware Tools – Workaround

I removed the previous VM and decided to do a clean install, but with one change to the configuration. I selected Windows Server 2008 as the Guest OS. The reason is that when you select  one of the existing guest OS choices VMware Tools is installed by default. The rest of the install was the same as before and completed successfully. When the VM powered on this time it had a network adapter present and I could access the network just fine. The only difference in this install was choosing Server 2008 at the beginning in order to install the VMware Tools automatically. Hopefully VMware will soon add native support for Windows 7.

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You have just installed VMware Server 2.0 for the first time and are trying to login and do not have the Login Name and Password.

Solution

VMware Server 2.0 is entirely web-based and no longer uses the familiar VMware 1.0 desktop application to manage the server. VMware Server 2.0 uses an existing account from your local OS install (i.e. Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Linux, etc.) or your domain account. Note: If you are using a domain account you must enter the domain name before the username or the login will fail (i.e. domain\username).