Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 07:12:17PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've ported the OpenBSD vmxnet3 ethernet driver to FreeBSD. I did a
> lot of cleanup, bug fixes, new features, etc (+2000 new lines) along
> the way so there is not much of a resemblance left.
> 
> The driver is in good enough shape I'd like additional testers. A patch
> against -CURRENT is at [1]. Alternatively, the driver and a Makefile is
> at [2]; this should compile at least as far back as 9.1. I can look at
> 8-STABLE if there is interest.
> 
> Obviously, besides reports of 'it works', I'm interested performance vs
> the emulated e1000, and (for those using it) the VMware tools vmxnet3
> driver. Hopefully it is no worse :)

I have ~100 FreeBSD 8/9 VMs in my vSphere 5.1 environment, all using the
VMware tools package from VMware. Everything has been running great for years.
(we skipped vSphere 5.0). Why should I use this vmxnet driver instead of the
VMware tools driver or the emulated e1000?

-- 
Joel