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Troubleshooting slow OS installation over the network

I have seen this question pop up endless times. "when I install the OS in my virtual machine using PXE over the network, is takes hours".  This situation can be caused by many different factors, but here are the top two that I have seen:

1) Smart Host adapters - Most Ethernet adapters in servers today have a feature called TCP/IP offloading.  This is where the adapter decodes the packet for the driver and hands it the payload.  This can provide performance improvement and scalability. 

Problem is the adapter that Virtual Server emulates does not understand this feature. 





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