Curious about compatibility between the VMXnet Gen3 driver and RHEL4 32-bit. Can't seem to find the docs on this. Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Here you can find all information on vmware network adapter:
VMXNET 3 is supported only for virtual machines version 7 and later, with a limited set of guest operating systems:
32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Asianux 3 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Debian 4/Ubuntu and later
32/64-bit versions of Sun Solaris 10 U4 and later
Here you can find all information on vmware network adapter:
VMXNET 3 is supported only for virtual machines version 7 and later, with a limited set of guest operating systems:
32- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Asianux 3 and later
32- and 64-bit versions of Debian 4/Ubuntu and later
32/64-bit versions of Sun Solaris 10 U4 and later
perfect, thanks. Not good news for RHEL4, but at least I know where to look.
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The docs may suggest otherwise, but I am running a RHEL4 guest under ESXi 4.0 and vmxnet3 loads and works fine.
uname -a
Linux test.local 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ethtool -i eth0
driver: vmxnet3
version: 1.0.1.0-NAPI
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0
dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: intr type 1, mode 0, 1 vectors allocated
eth0: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Enjoy!
-DKS
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