Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-14 Thread Christian Plattner
Just for the record: I upgraded to ESX 3.0.2 and... 1.) So far, I did not observe any stalls on the emulated e1000 (em) interfaces. Currently I am playing with the vmxnet driver as well. 2.) VGT mode seems to work correct, very short ethernet frames (i.e., ICMP ping packets produced by windows

Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Shockley
Christian Plattner wrote: In my experience, things are not so clear. OK, using the e1000 is a must (the vlance driver does not properly work with the emulation done by ESX, probably an issue with the PCN_NTXSEGS value (16) in if_pcn.c)). However, using the e1000 emulation is also not trouble fr

Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Plattner
> I've personally not had any issues with the vlance driver. Have two > 4.1 guests on ESX3.0.1, been running since around July without issues > well, ... > considering I haven't had any issues to date. I will admit they don't > get a lot of heavy use. In my case the pattern produced by executin

Re: OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread David Gwynne
have you tried the vmxnet interfaces supported by the vic driver? there's a couple of bugfixes in vic after 4.1 that you might want though. dlg On 02/10/2007, at 5:50 PM, Christian Plattner wrote: Dear all, I am seeking for people that run OpenBSD 4.1 on ESX servers and want to share th

OpenBSD on ESX - Networking experiences

2007-10-02 Thread Christian Plattner
Dear all, I am seeking for people that run OpenBSD 4.1 on ESX servers and want to share their experiences =) To make sure that I won't provoke replies like 'idiot, virtualization subverts the safety of OpenBSD' I hereby declare that I do not want to use this for productive systems (...not).