Re: vmxnet broken on latest kernels

[Reindl H. <h.r...@th...>]

Am 13.03.2012 17:00, schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:48:10 +0100
> Reindl Harald <h.r...@th...> wrote:
> 
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>> 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.

i am using vmxnet3 on a large amount of VMware-Wokrstation machines
as also on all orduction servers hosted on ESXi 4.1 since a really
long time and would never ever use vmxnet2 since you have a big problem
is something goes wrong and you need network access from your guest
to fix the troubles