vmware esx

[thierry itty]

Hello
I installed a vmware workstation 5.5
I installed a FC4 over the vmware wks
I installed the tools provided with vmware wks 5.5 on the fc4
I picked up the vmware-tools tgz file
I installed them on the FC4 in the esx server
They compiled and loaded fine
I changed modprobe.conf as indicated
I stopped the vm
I changed the nic from vlance to vmxnet
I rebooted the vm
It WORKS !!!
I had a very quick test with an ftp (650MB file) which transfered at 27 
mbps (much mode than the 10 mbps limit of the vlance nic)

hope it will help others

JB a écrit :

>On 3/1/06, thierry itty <thierry.itty at besancon.org> wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>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.
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>--jb
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