![]() ![]() Never mind that it says Windows 8, as it will work with Windows Server 2012 since they are the same code base.Ģ. Download the Windows 8 ADK (Assessment and Deployment Kit) from here. Unlike Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, there is no separate Windows Recovery Environment WIM to modify.ġ. ![]() The process below injects the required drivers into the Windows Server 2012 installation boot files, and the actual Window Server operating system, for a fully VMware aware image. Plus, I like to include the VMXNET3 driver, so that the VM can use the high performance virtual NIC that VMware provides, without first having to install VMware tools. This is a high performance mass storage driver that is optimized for virtual environments and gives you the best disk I/O performance. Unfortunately Microsoft does not include it out of the box on any OS install disk. One of the performance optimizations that I always include in our Windows VM templates is the VMware paravirtual SCSI driver. But given those are now legacy operating systems, I’m refreshing the procedures for Windows Server 2012 (they’d work on Windows 8 too). A while back I wrote a blog article on how to inject VMware drivers (PVSCSI and VMXNET3) into a Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 image. ![]()
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