Wednesday, May 13, 2009

VMware and WDS

Trying to PXE boot to Windows Deployment Services, but it keeps failing with error pxe-e53 no boot filename received. Spent hours thinking something was wrong with the server only to find out the problem was with vmware.

Solution:
Somewhere along the line I updated VMware to 6.5 and the default networking settings changed from Bridged to NAT. PXE boot won't work with NAT. Changing to Bridged mode and restarting the VMWare machine fixed it. Wow, hours of time working on this for such a simple solution!

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