On 8/10/07, Peter Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
VMware has 3 network virtual devices/drivers
the one you are thinking of they call the vlance driver which is based on the
AMD PCnet 3, there are issues with this virtual nic/driver and it is recommended
only if you have bigger issues with the better drivers and can't get them to work.
the vmxnet virtual device/driver is a custom virtual nic, don't believe there
are any physical implementations. This one is recommended for 32-bit VMs
the e1000 is a virtual Intel Pro 1000 and is recommended for 64-bit VMs.
Don't think any of these are included in the stock vmlinuz/initrd.img,
VMware Tools includes all this and more (virtual graphics adapter,
monitoring tools, etc.)
But I think some distributions take some if not all of these pieces and
loads them up with all the other drivers.
Did a find on the wrong box (I was confused), and found a whole of versions
of vmnet.o and vmmon.o for different kernels.
Wonder if vmnet.o has all three drivers bundled together?
So far I finding new questions faster than answers.
I'll figured it out sooner or later.
Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Peter Wright suggested that it looks like my vmlinuz/initrd.img
> > don't support my virtual nic. He's probably right, I've got to
> > figure out how to build the right vmlinz/initrd.img before I try
> > again and we see if there's a third problem lurking behind these
> > two.
>
> cobbler import will pick the kernel/initrd from the "os/images/pxe"
> directory for
> TFTP installs. If you used "cobbler import" and your distro/profile
> didn't contain
> the word "Xen" in it, that's the one you are using. The Xen pair
> definitely
> probably won't work. If those don't work, the NIC is probably the
> issue -- though
> I would kind of expect them to be simulating something relatively
> standard. Could be wrong :)
>
I memory serves me correctly VMWare emulates either an NE100 NIC or a
generic AMD NIC (can't remember the divers specifically off the top of
my head though). you do not need the vm-tools package though to get the
NIC working though - i believe the tools package addresses some
performance problems with the virtual NIC, but i do not think it
modifies the kernel module used.
while googling it seems they do emulate a generic AMD NIC, what's
interesting is that the OpenBSD folks have developed a specific VMware
driver named "vic" which "supports the vmxnet driver protocol".
VMware has 3 network virtual devices/drivers
the one you are thinking of they call the vlance driver which is based on the
AMD PCnet 3, there are issues with this virtual nic/driver and it is recommended
only if you have bigger issues with the better drivers and can't get them to work.
the vmxnet virtual device/driver is a custom virtual nic, don't believe there
are any physical implementations. This one is recommended for 32-bit VMs
the e1000 is a virtual Intel Pro 1000 and is recommended for 64-bit VMs.
Don't think any of these are included in the stock vmlinuz/initrd.img,
VMware Tools includes all this and more (virtual graphics adapter,
monitoring tools, etc.)
But I think some distributions take some if not all of these pieces and
loads them up with all the other drivers.
Did a find on the wrong box (I was confused), and found a whole of versions
of vmnet.o and vmmon.o for different kernels.
Wonder if vmnet.o has all three drivers bundled together?
So far I finding new questions faster than answers.
I'll figured it out sooner or later.
-p
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www.imageworks.com
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