Introduction

Sometimes I spend hours looking for a solution to a problem on the internet. Sometimes I find it, sometimes I don't. I thought it might be worth trying to document some of the issues I have resolved using all tose phrases I would have searched for. Maybe in the future someone will be grateful that I saved them a few minutes searching.

Virtual Server Ethernet Switch Issue

I installed Microsoft Virtual Server on an old server. Primarily I use VS2005 now where I used to use Virtual PC purely so machines can boot automatically.

My problem was that the network adapters weren't being recognised. The event log showed:

Event ID: 1044
Virtual Server could not open its emulated Ethernet switch driver. To fix this problem, re-enable the Virtual Server Emulated Ethernet Switch service on one or more Ethernet adapters or reinstall Virtual Server.

Now the solution is to either enable the service on the card, or re-install the Virtual Server software. I spent hours do this over-and-over, rebooting restarting to no avail.

The solution:

• Use Add/remove programs and remove VS2005
• REBOOT - if you don't the service will probably be marked for delete and you can re-install
• Log on as ADMINISTRATOR - my mistake was using another account which had the same privileges (at least I believed so)
• Install Virtual Server