We now need to create the bootable ISO from the extracted ISO files. Now that boot.wim and install.wim have been updated, copy those files back into the \sources folder. install.wim is the wim file that the actual Server 2012 R2 install files are located. Using DISM mount the wim file, add the drivers and then unmount the WIM making sure to commit the changes. Finally create a folder to mount the wim files into such as C:\Temp\Mount. If you now browse to the folder you extracted into go to C:\Temp\Extract\VMware.VMware and you will see the folders pvscsi and vmxnet3 which have the drivers we want. Run through the wizard and at the Network Location screen choose the folder you want to extract VMware Tools to. First of all you will need a copy of the drivers. The vmxnet3 driver is installed when VMware Tools is installed in the Guest OS but this means you are without network connectivity until it’s installed. Unfortunately the standard 2012 R2 ISO image does not have these drivers installed. I build my VM’s with the VMware VMXNET3 NIC and the PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI driver to get the best performance possible from them. This post details how to add the VMXNET3 and PVSCSI Drivers into the Windows Server 2012 R2 ISO Related content Adding VMware Drivers to Server 2012 R2 Boot Media ›
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