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One thing I hadn&#8217;t got around to at that time though was injecting the necessary drivers to provide network access to\/from the server &#8211; which is pretty critical for a virtualisation host! Under network settings, the Hyper-V Server Configuration (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/07\/07\/windows-server-2008-r2-core-introducing-sconfig.aspx\"><code>sconfig.vbs<\/code><\/a>) showed that there were no active network adapters found but I knew this should be pretty easy to fix.<\/p>\n<p>One of the strengths of the Hyper-V architecture is that it uses the standard Windows device driver model. This is in stark contrast to the monolithic model used for VMware ESX (and ESXi) and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/failing-to-run-vmware-esxi-on-a-notebook-computer.htm\">the reason that I can&#8217;t do something similar with ESXi<\/a>. 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Armed with the appropriate driver (yk62x64.sys v11.10.7.3), I ran <code>pnputil -i -a yk62x64.inf<\/code> on my Hyper-V Server:<\/p>\n<p><em>Microsoft PnP Utility<\/p>\n<p>Processing inf :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0yk62x64.inf<br \/>\nSuccessfully installed the driver on a device on the system.<br \/>\nDriver package added successfully.<br \/>\nPublished name :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oem0.inf<\/p>\n<p>Total attempted:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01<br \/>\nNumber successfully imported: 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(oem0.inf and an associated oem0.pnf file were created in the %windir%\\inf\\ folder)<\/p>\n<p>With drivers loaded, I restarted the server (probably not necessary but I wanted to ensure that all services were running) and Hyper-V Server recognised the network card, allowing me to make configuration changes if required.<\/p>\n<p>To validate the configuration, I ran <code>pnputil -e<\/code>, to which the response was:<\/p>\n<p><em>Microsoft PnP Utility<\/p>\n<p>Published name :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oem0.inf<br \/>\nDriver package provider :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Marvell<br \/>\nClass :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Network adapters<br \/>\nDriver date and version :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a007\/20\/2009 11.10.7.3<br \/>\nSigner name :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s installing network drivers on Hyper-V Server, what about removing them? Here, I was less successful. I tried removing the plug and play package with <code>pnputil -f -d oem0.inf<\/code> and this removed the package from %windir%\\inf but, after a reboot, my network settings persisted. I also used <code>devcon.exe<\/code>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/command-line-alternative-to-windows.htm\">the command line equivalent to the Windows Device Manager<\/a> (making sure I had the amd86 version, not i386 or ia64) to successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osronline.com\/showthread.cfm?link=161590\">remove the PnP package<\/a> (<code>devcon -f dp_delete oem0.inf<\/code>) as well as the network interface (<code>devcon remove \"PCI\\VEN_11AB&amp;DEV_4363\"<\/code>) but this still left several copies of yk62x64.sys available in various Windows system folders. Again, after a reboot the network card was re-enabled. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dirteam.com\/blogs\/sanderberkouwer\/archive\/2007\/08\/27\/add-or-remove-programs-in-server-core.aspx\">Uninstalling network drivers is not a very likely scenario in most cases<\/a> but, with a bootable flash device potentially roaming between hardware platforms, it would be good to work out how to do this. Of course, my work is based on the release candidate &#8211; the RTM version of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is yet to be released to web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about running Windows from a flash drive &#8211; specifically running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. One thing I hadn&#8217;t got around to at that time though was injecting the necessary drivers to provide network access to\/from the server &#8211; which is pretty critical for a virtualisation host! 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