vmware esx

thierry itty thierry.itty at besancon.org
Thu Mar 9 15:58:18 UTC 2006


I know FC4 is not supported
It seems that several problems I get with FC4 appear also with RHEL4, 
and I guess that solving them on one side will help much solving them on 
the other...
I've been suggested to try with the latest workstation tools
I'll let you know
Thanks for the answer

JB a écrit :

>On 3/1/06, thierry itty <thierry.itty at besancon.org> wrote:
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>>Hello
>>
>>I'm having trouble using vmware's optimized network driver "vmxnet" with
>>a fedora core 4 under vmware esx 2.5.2
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>You probably already know that FC is not officially a supported guest
>OS under ESX.
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>>I compiled from source, even latest version, the module compiles and
>>loads fine, the interface show up fine too, but the RX paquet count
>>desperately stays at 0, meaning the interface can't receive anything
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>>any tip or advice ?
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>I've seen this a lot with Linux running on ESX (particularly on
>non-supported systems). You should probably stick with vlance if
>network bandwidth isn't critical.
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>You could manually try:
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>rmmod vmxnet
>modprobe vmxnet
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>and manually set the IP-address.
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>Also, you might want to check out the VMware Discussions Forums.
>
>--jb
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