On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:52:01PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the > > VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for > > years. > > (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead of the > > VMware tools driver or the emulated e1000? > > > > They are out of tree and subject to rotting. I had to use the patches > at [1] to even get them to compile on 9.1 and -current. I don't think > VMware puts much engineering resources behind it;
Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several support cases with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far. Are you aiming at completely replacing VMware tools, or just the device drivers? -- Joel _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
