Re: vmxnet broken on latest kernels

[Stephen H. <she...@vy...>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:48:10 +0100
Reindl Harald <h.r...@th...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 11.03.2012 02:25, schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> > Latest kernels got rid of set/get tx/rx checksum in favor of a more
> > generic set_features interface.  The vmxnet driver needs to be updated.
> > Before I go off and waste time doing it, is there a newer version?
> 
> why do you not use vmxnet3 which is in the mainline-kernel
> since a longer time and so needs no kernel-modules from
> third-party-packages?
> 

Vmware workstation does not officially support vmxnet3. It is possible to make
vmxnet3 work with some  config file editing, but it isn't really supported.

Not a big issue, but need to use workstation to validate builds when running
on my laptop.