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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

Feb 15, 2006 11:32 AM

atg 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 Feb 15, 2006 1:07 PM

petr 7,218 posts since
Jul 10, 2003 VMware

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...

Re: vmxnet with a Linux host OS and FreeBSD guest Feb 15, 2006 1:31 PM

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atg 2 posts since
Feb 15, 2006

Petr,

Thanks a bunch, that was perfect!

Moses

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