SOLVED! - RC2 amd64 on Esx4.1 - VMXNET2 Drivers

[photonman]

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"

[sullrich]

This should be fixed.  Sorry about that.

[photonman]

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.

[photonman]

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.

[cmb]

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.

[photonman]

Updated tonight and tried the i386 package and still no network adapters detected.

[photonman]

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

[photonman]

/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"