On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 09:00:49 AM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:48:10 +0100 > > Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 11.03.2012 02:25, schrieb Stephen Hemminger: > > > Latest kernels got rid of set/get tx/rx checksum in favor of a more > > > generic set_features interface. The vmxnet driver needs to be > > > updated. > > > Before I go off and waste time doing it, is there a newer version? > > > > why do you not use vmxnet3 which is in the mainline-kernel > > since a longer time and so needs no kernel-modules from > > third-party-packages? > > Vmware workstation does not officially support vmxnet3. It is possible to > make vmxnet3 work with some config file editing, but it isn't really > supported. > > Not a big issue, but need to use workstation to validate builds when running > on my laptop.
While we are going to update OVT and that will bring fixes to vmxnet for newer kernels I believe we recommend using either e1000 or vmxnet3 virtual devices instead of vmxnet. Vmxnet is _very_ old. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
