Bug? Open-VMware Tools create no VMX devices

Reiner030

Hello,

I searched in the howto from if there is an failure but see none…
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,34043.0.htm

I have setup 4 E1000 and 4 VMXNET3 devices in host system
I installed OpenVMware tools in pfsense guest...
It made correct entries:

[2.1-BETA1][root@gw2.jws1.local]/root(3): cat /boot/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"
hw.usb.no_pf="1"

Kernel module is also loaded:

[2.1-BETA1][root@gw2.jws1.local]/root(4): kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 23 0xffffffff80100000 1564130 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff81665000 fbd8 ipmi.ko
3 2 0xffffffff81675000 23d0 smbus.ko
4 1 0xffffffff81812000 1a41 aesni.ko
5 1 0xffffffff81814000 c61 coretemp.ko
6 1 0xffffffff81815000 15a8 vmmemctl.ko
7 1 0xffffffff81817000 22f8 vmxnet.ko
8 1 0xffffffff8181a000 2920 vmblock.ko
9 1 0xffffffff8181d000 83d4 vmhgfs.ko

But there are no additional interfaces created:

[2.1-BETA1][root@gw2.jws1.local]/root(5): ifconfig | grep mtu
em0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
em1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
em2: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
em3: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
plip0: flags=8810 <pointopoint,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>metric 0 mtu 1460
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33664
wan_vip201: flags=49 <up,loopback,running>metric 0 mtu 1500
wan_vip202: flags=49 <up,loopback,running>metric 0 mtu 1500
lan_vip203: flags=49 <up,loopback,running>metric 0 mtu 1500
lan_vip204: flags=49 <up,loopback,running>metric 0 mtu 1500
opt2_vip205: flags=49 <up,loopback,running>metric 0 mtu 1500

Any hints please?

Bests

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Comexans

Hi,

As far as I know, Open VM Tools does not provide drivers for vmxnet 3 (It supports only vmxnet 2). If you need vmxnet 3 support you should install the "official" VMware Tools by following instructions provided by pfSense.User.1138 on this topic http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,34043.0.html
Watch out at the second page of the thread as there are some hints if the Tools are not loaded properly after a reboot.

Reiner030

@Comexans:

As far as I know, Open VM Tools does not provide drivers for vmxnet 3 (It supports only vmxnet 2). If you need vmxnet 3 support you should install the "official" VMware Tools by following instructions provided by pfSense.User.1138 on this topic http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,34043.0.html
Watch out at the second page of the thread as there are some hints if the Tools are not loaded properly after a reboot.

thanks … I have overread / mixed it up in this longer thread when checking for problems that the OpenVM Tools create only the VMXNET2 device but for VMXNET3 there is still the need for the VMware offered package. I would check this then out when I'm back from holiday ;)