Hi,
During my testing of hardy alpha 4 on VMware ESX 3.0.2 I have so far found a
problem with the network
driver. Im using linux-virtual as my kernel.
As I understand it the pcnet32 driver should be replaced with the vmxnet
driver. The kernel loads both the pcnet32 and
the vmxnet driver. This causes a problem since we need to rmmod both pcnet32
and vmxnet driver and then modprobe
the vmxnet driver again and finally restart networking!
There is also a bug in the open-vm-tools package. The /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools
script calls a function named vmxnet_needed
but doesn't check the return value from the function using $?. Either that or
this is due to my limited knowledge of dash...
----< cut >----
--- open-vm-tools 2008-02-10 20:14:20.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools 2008-02-10 20:15:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@
log_progress_msg "vmhgfs"; modprobe vmhgfs
log_progress_msg "vmmemctl"; modprobe vmmemctl
log_end_msg 0
- if vmxnet_needed
+
+ vmxnet_needed
+ if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
rmmod pcnet32
modprobe vmxnet
@@ -63,7 +65,9 @@
kill `cat /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid`
fi
log_end_msg 0
- if vmxnet_needed
+
+ vmxnet_needed
+ if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
rmmod vmxnet
modprobe pcnet32
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