On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:53:09 +0100 "roland" <devzero@xxxxxx> wrote: > > The ipv6 module cannot be unloaded once it has been > > loaded. > > sorry, i thought i could rmmod evey module which was insmod/modprobe'd > before and i didn`t know that there are exceptions > > > I'm not sure what is happened with vmware. > > i think this is not completely related to vmware - but maybe this is being > triggered more often by vmware ? > http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22unregister_netdevice%3A+waiting+for+eth0+to+become+free > > it`s really strange, but after taking a look, vmware seems to recommend > disabling ipv6 for _every_ linux based guest OS in general: > http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=gos_ww5_output&file=choose_install_guest_os.html > > since there are already running millions of linux based VMs in this world, > i think this isn`t very good "promotion" for ipv6, if vmware recommending > disabling it. > ok, there are not that much people already needing ipv6 NOW, but the later > they are running it and the later outstanding bugs being fixed, the harder > it will be to convert from ipv4 to ipv6.... > > roland > > Vmware has there own pseudo ethernet device and unless you have the source for it. It would be hard to tell if it correctly manages itself. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
