{"id":773,"date":"2010-08-18T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/?p=773"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:35:57","slug":"vmware-force-the-load-of-the-vmxnet-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/2010\/08\/18\/vmware-force-the-load-of-the-vmxnet-module\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; force the load of the vmxnet module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I noticed that on our virtual environments (VMware ESX) based on\u00a0 GNU\/Linux (mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian <\/a>or <a href=\"www.ubuntu.com\">Ubuntu <\/a>distros ) the vmxnet modul is not used or not correctly loaded. Because of\u00a0 lsmod shows also a loaded pcnet32 module which uses mii.<\/p>\n<p>I added follwing script snippet to the \/etc\/init.d\/open-vm-tools<br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\"> log_progress_msg \"vmhgfs\"; modprobe vmhgfs\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmsync\"; modprobe vmsync\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmxnet - stoping network\"; \/etc\/init.d\/networking stop\r\n log_end_msg 0\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmxnet - removing pcnet32\"; rmmod pcnet32\r\n log_end_msg 0\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmxnet - removing vmxnet\"; rmmod vmxnet\r\n log_end_msg 0\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmxnet - loading vmxnet \"; modprobe vmxnet\r\n log_end_msg 0\r\n log_progress_msg \"vmxnet - starting network\";\/etc\/init.d\/networking start\r\n log_end_msg 0<\/pre>\n<p>Check the <strong>dmesg <\/strong>out for:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash\">[ 42.273810] vmxnet 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A disabled\r\n[ 51.808321] VMware vmxnet virtual NIC driver\r\n[ 51.808422] vmxnet 0000:00:11.0: PCI INT A -&gt; GSI 18 (level, low) -&gt; IRQ 18\r\n[ 51.815601] Found vmxnet\/PCI at 0x1424, irq 18.\r\n[ 51.816793] features: ipCsum zeroCopy partialHeaderCopy\r\n[ 51.820787] numRxBuffers = 100, numRxBuffers2 = 1\r\n[ 62.762575] eth0: no IPv6 routers present\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This addon to the startup script removes the pcnet32 and vmxnet32 modules and loads explicit vmxnet. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n Take care if you get an <em>symbol not found error<\/em> while loading the <strong>vmghfs <\/strong>module. If so you have to uncomment the loading of this module.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that on our virtual environments (VMware ESX) based on\u00a0 GNU\/Linux (mostly Debian or Ubuntu distros ) the vmxnet modul is not used or not correctly loaded. Because of\u00a0 lsmod shows also a loaded pcnet32 module which uses mii. I added follwing script snippet to the \/etc\/init.d\/open-vm-tools log_progress_msg &#8220;vmhgfs&#8221;; modprobe vmhgfs log_progress_msg &#8220;vmsync&#8221;; modprobe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/2010\/08\/18\/vmware-force-the-load-of-the-vmxnet-module\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VMware &#8211; force the load of the vmxnet module<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fh-kaernten.at\/wehr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}