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wuzhaoli
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[Urgent Help]VM(Suse 11 sp3) can't recognize Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit network card.

1. I have a machine which installed Suse Linux 11 sp3 , and there is a Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit network card, link use fibre.

data-53:~ # lspci |grep 82599

82:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

82:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

data-53:~ # ethtool eth2

Settings for eth2:

  Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]

  Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full

                         10000baseT/Full

  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

  Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full

                         10000baseT/Full

  Advertised pause frame use: No

  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

  Speed: 10000Mb/s

  Duplex: Full

  Port: FIBRE

  PHYAD: 0

  Transceiver: external

  Auto-negotiation: on

  Supports Wake-on: d

  Wake-on: d

  Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)

        drv probe link

  Link detected: yes

data-53:~ #

2. Install vmware station 12 in this machine , and create 1 vm which also install Suse Linux 11 SP3. Login in the VM ,and check the network card , can't recognize the Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit network card. Like this:

vm-420:~ # ethtool eth1

Settings for eth1:

  Supported ports: [ TP ]

  Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                         1000baseT/Full

  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

  Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                         1000baseT/Full

  Advertised pause frame use: No

  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

  Speed: 1000Mb/s

  Duplex: Full

  Port: Twisted Pair

  PHYAD: 0

  Transceiver: internal

  Auto-negotiation: on

  MDI-X: off

  Supports Wake-on: d

  Wake-on: d

  Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)

        drv probe link

  Link detected: yes

vm-420:~ #

Question : Whether it is the reason of network driver ? and how to resolve this problem , need help ,thanks very much!

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RDPetruska
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Your guest VM will never see your host's network card directly.  It sees a virtual network card - which one depends on which guest OS you specified, virtual hardware version, etc.  (Usually an Intel e1000 for newer OS's)  Read the Workstation User's Manual chapter on Networking.

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wuzhaoli
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But in the vm machine , only recognize 10/100/1000 network card, but in fact , it's a 10000 network card.

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RDPetruska
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It honestly doesn't matter - all virtualized network traffic goes through the CPU, not the physical NIC directly.  It's just a label, as far as the guest is concerned - there is no (default) bandwidth throttling.

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