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    PfSense on ESXi 6.0?

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      yeah that is that simple

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        Jamerson
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        @johnpoz:

        yeah that is that simple

        Hi John have you tried the vMware Tools 6.0 build 2476743 version 9.10.0 ?
        are this broke too ? or the Native tools are not compatible with FREEBSD

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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          I have not tried the native tools, to be honest what do the openvm tools not provide that the native ones would?  Is that driver for vmx3 better than the ones in freebsd 10.1 out of the box?

          The install process for native tools has never been click click like it is on other OSes - I really don't see a point to use them now that vmx3 support is built in.  But sure when I get a chance I will give it go again.  That way the VM will show current tools instead of 3rd party which prob the only benefit to using them ;)

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            Supermule Banned
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            According to release notes on ESXi 6.0 FreeBSD is only supported in Version 9.3 and not 10.1.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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              Huh, freebsd 10.1 has been supported since 5.5u2

              Not sure what you were reading.. But 10.1 is clearly supported and tools are available in the media even.

              http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Guide.pdf

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                Jamerson
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                @johnpoz:

                I have not tried the native tools, to be honest what do the openvm tools not provide that the native ones would?  Is that driver for vmx3 better than the ones in freebsd 10.1 out of the box?

                The install process for native tools has never been click click like it is on other OSes - I really don't see a point to use them now that vmx3 support is built in.  But sure when I get a chance I will give it go again.  That way the VM will show current tools instead of 3rd party which prob the only benefit to using them ;)

                i agree John.
                is the out of the box vmx support 10GB NICs ?
                on the vmx it shows just auto detect.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                  Do you have 10gig nics?  Are you seeing slower network performance?  Yes the old native drivers use to say 10g for the speed..  I show only autoselect with the native freebsd driver.

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                    So I fired up a clean vm, 2.2.1 and install the native vmware tools.. They are broke..  I can get ping to pass through wan and lan if using vmx3f0 and vmx3f1 as my lan.  But nothing else.  I have e1000 up as well for lan to allow me to get to the vm and play with stuff.

                    What I can tell you is with the native tools it shows 10g nics vs autoselect ;)  And if you look at the hardware

                    em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                            options=98 <vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:0c:29:3b:8c:e3
                            inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                            inet6 fe80::1:1%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                            nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                            status: active
                    vmx3f0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                            options=403bb <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,tso4,tso6,vlan_hwtso>ether 00:0c:29:3b:8c:ed
                            inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe3b:8ced%vmx3f0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                            inet 192.168.3.108 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
                            nd6 options=23 <performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T
                            status: active

                    I am wondering if start turning off some of that advanced stuff like VLAN_HWTSO if that will make a difference?  drive seems to load and can ping it, but nothing else works?</performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,jumbo_mtu,vlan_hwcsum,tso4,tso6,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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                      FauxShow
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                      johnpoz; I replied to your to your post on another thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87675.msg506040#msg506040

                      brb; gotta reboot my pfsense

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        Yeah saw that, thanks turning off the txcsum and rxcsum seems to fix the problem..

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