Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:52:01PM -0500, Bryan Venteicher wrote:
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> They are out of tree and subject to rotting. I had to use the patches
> at [1] to even get them to compile on 9.1 and -current. I don't think
> VMware puts much engineering resources behind it;

Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several support cases
with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far.

Are you aiming at completely replacing VMware tools, or just the device
drivers?

-- 
Joel