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