----- Original Message ----- > I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the > VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for > years. > (we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead of the > VMware tools driver or the emulated e1000? >
They are out of tree and subject to rotting. I had to use the patches at [1] to even get them to compile on 9.1 and -current. I don't think VMware puts much engineering resources behind it; there was a compiler warning of a silly bug like: if (foo) ; do_something(); vmxnet3 has modern features LRO, IPv6 checksum offloading, etc that the emulated e1000 lacks. In my test setup, e1000 tops out at 30MB/sec but vmxnet3 goes to 50MB/sec. I'd like to hear other's experiences. [1] - http://ogris.de/vmware/ > -- > Joel > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"