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Sunday, January 18, 2009

VirtualBox - No Network Adapter on Windows XP

I had an issue with a guest Windows XP in a virtual machine. It could not recognize neither of the network cards (NICs) offered by VirtualBox.
Here are the links for Intel, and AMD network card drivers. I used the driver (available here) and everything was alright after the driver installation.
Funny the driver was not available on the manufacturer's site for Windows 2008 Server.

Source for the links - here.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this blog bro, it worked for me!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for collecting the links.
It's a shame that Innotek/Sun/Oracle can't redistribute the drivers on their VirtualBoxTool InstallCD.

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for that, very much obliged.

Anonymous said...

It worked for me, too, and thanks also.

Tanay said...

Allen - I have installed VirtualBox on my mac (Mountain Lion) with win XP as a guest. I am not able to connect to internet...do I need to install these drivers or are these for Windows host OS

Tanay said...

Allen - I have installed VirtualBox on my mac (Mountain Lion) with win XP as a guest. I am not able to connect to internet...do I need to install these drivers or are these for Windows host OS

Alen's Australia said...

Hi Tanay,

You might want to try installing these drivers in the guest OS. From what I remember, VirtualBox default network interface is one of these (Intel/AMD), depending on the main processor you have in the host.
Let us know how it went for you.

Anonymous said...

Though this post is on 2009, it still helps. Thank you so much Alen.
I had been looking for the solution about 2 days already and you saved me.