SOLVED! - RC2 amd64 on Esx4.1 - VMXNET2 Drivers
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2.0-RC2 (amd64) built on Thu May 12 17:58:58 EDT 2011
I had the VMXNET2 (enhanced) drivers working on the last build before RC2.
Invoked auto update today and now the VMXNET2 drivers do not work. If I add those nics in the vm, no adapters
are detected on boot up.I see a quick glimpse of a syntax error that says something like below but it goes too quick for me to see…
load driver vmxnet = "yes"
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This should be fixed. Sorry about that.
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I just auto updated to latest build. Will add the vmxnet2 nics on monday.
thanks
If this works, I am done updating until the RTM version as I got everything I need now.
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Just Attempted this with:
RC2 (amd64) built on Sun May 15 04:20:20 EDT 2011
Got same syntax error message and no network interfaces detected when selecting VMXNET2 in the vm setup. Back to E1000
vm_driver load = "yes" vm_block load = "yes"
EDIT: Just attempted with latest i386 build with Open VM Tools 3 and I have the same issue.
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the packages hadn't been updated to sync from the new git repo until this afternoon so that change didn't come over until then, try again.
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Updated tonight and tried the i386 package and still no network adapters detected.
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I have tried various i386 and amd64 packages and this is the the one I can get to work
2.0-RC1 (i386) - built on Tue May 10 07:59:35 EDT 2011
Open VM Tools 3.x
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/BOOT/LOADER.CONF
once I compared the good loader.conf from my i386 build to the bad amd64 file and made the changes…it all worked perfect
BAD loader.conf
autoboot_delay="3"
vm.kmem_size="435544320"
vm.kmem_size_max="535544320"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
kern.hz=100
vmblock_load="YES"
vmmemct_load="YES"
vmhgfs_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"vmblock_load="YES"
vmmemct_load="YES"
vmhgfs_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"vmblock_load="YES"
vmmemct_load="YES"
vmhgfs_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"vmblock_load="YES"
vmmemct_load="YES"
vmhgfs_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"GOOD loader.conf
autoboot_delay="3"
vm.kmem_size="435544320"
vm.kmem_size_max="535544320"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
kern.hz=100
vmblock_load="YES"
vmmemct_load="YES"
vmhgfs_load="YES"
vmxnet_load="YES"