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2 Replies Last post: Feb 15, 2006 1:31 PM by atg  

vmxnet with a Linux host OS and FreeBSD guest posted: Feb 15, 2006 11:32 AM

Click to view atg's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Feb 15, 2006
Hi,

I'm getting pretty poor performance with the lance driver (and only 10Mbit obviously), and I'd like to get something better working.

I've tried installing the tools, and the kernel module loads, but then I don't get a vxn0 device available, and nothing is showing up in pciconf in FreeBSD.

Has anyone had any luck with the vmxnet device with a FreeBSD guest OS, and if so how do you do it?

Thanks,

Moses

Re: vmxnet with a Linux host OS and FreeBSD guest

1. Feb 15, 2006 1:07 PM in response to: atg
Click to view petr's profile Champion 7,218 posts since
Jul 10, 2003
You must add

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"

to the *.vmx. But while you are doing that, I recommend you use

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

and then configure guest to use e1000 driver...

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