Thanks for the through explanation. I just wanted to make sure that next time I'll reboot or copy the VM, I'll have the correct bindings.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: > Well, VMware assigns NICs to PCI buses according to the order and/or syntax > used to define them in the vmx file, whereas OpenBSD enumerates the devices > by scanning PCI buses in a deterministic order. > Most likely you can't just change the naming without compiling a custom > kernel or liberal (reckless?) use of config(8). > You could try various manipulations of the vmx file to see what the effects > would be... But there's no direct way to manipulate PCI assignment, only > indirect. > VMware does some odd things with PCI resource allocation, I don't know if > your "problem" - which isn't really a technical problem, that I can see - is > solvable. > > One resource I know of for vmx syntax is http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html. > > -Adam > > > > > On August 19, 2014 8:18:32 PM CDT, Dan Shechter <dans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks. >> >> I do mean about re-arrange them. Or to be more precise, to make the >> aligned to what is configured in VMWare's vmx file. >> >> Do you think its not possible? >> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 14-08-19 06:48 PM, Dan Shechter wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I am installing amd64 snapshot from aug 8 on vmware workstation. >>>> This VM has 5 interfaces. >>>> I have changed them all to use vmxnet3 NIC. >>>> vmx0 on openbsd is not ethernet0 in vmware, so are all other >>>> interfaces. >>>> Any idea how to match the VMware's ethernet NIC order to OpenBSD's >>>> NIC's >>>> order? >>> >>> >>> >>> If what you want to know is how to identify them, >>> look at the MAC addresses >>> in the VMware machine and inside the OpenBSD VM. >>> I don't know of any way to re-arrange them, if that's what you meant. >>> >>> -- >>> -Adam Thompson >>> athom...@athompso.net >> >> > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
