Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:51:56 -0700 From: Jim Pazarena <fquest@paz.bz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 11.2 on VMWare ESXi Message-ID: <64fd362f-af65-83cd-98c2-535e8ae053c6@paz.bz>
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On 2019-04-15 8:07 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > On 2019-04-15 5:55 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: >> My first exploration of FreeBSD on ESXi has been a bit challenging . >> >> While my network runs fine on vmx0 , FreeBSD doesn't seem acknowledge >> the existence of vmx1, vmx2, or vmx3 . But they do . I have a CentOS >> vm which is happy on a different vswitch . >> >> Is there anything special about FreeBSD 'seeing' additional vswitches ? >> I am using ESXi 6.7.0 8169922 , and I just downloaded an 'update 2' of >> 6.7.0 . >> >> Perhaps a re-install to this vmware update 2 will correct this . But >> that's a whole lot of work . >> >> Any tips ahead of that would be most appreciated . Someone responded off-list and suggested that I switch to the e1000 drive rather than the vmx driver . It worked ! Thanks for the tip . Jim > > for just a moment , I see the following on the ESXi console screen for > FreeBSD: > > pcib19: Attention Button Pressed: Detaching in 5 seconds > pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on picb19 > vmx1: <NVeare VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter> at device 0.0 on pci5 > vmx1: Ethernet address: 00:0c:29:61:d0:61 > vmx1: detached > pci5: detached > > At this point I do not know if this is a > VMWare issue, or a > FreeBSD issue, or a > HP Server issue . > > A guiding hand would be appreciated . > -- Jim Pazarena fquest@paz.bz
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