From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Apr 18 02:52:09 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A191583F5D for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from mail.haidagwaii.net (mail.haidagwaii.net [23.235.65.79]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F05671A2D for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:52:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from [209.145.97.15] (helo=[192.168.0.220]) by mail.haidagwaii.net with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1hGx9Z-000HCl-7o; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:51:57 -0700 Subject: Re: FBSD 11.2 on VMWare ESXi From: Jim Pazarena To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <64fd362f-af65-83cd-98c2-535e8ae053c6@paz.bz> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:51:56 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3F05671A2D X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of fquest@paz.bz designates 23.235.65.79 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=fquest@paz.bz X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.53 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FAKE_REPLY(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.14)[-0.140,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[paz.bz]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.51)[-0.513,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.51)[0.510,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mail.haidagwaii.net]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[79.65.235.23.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; IP_SCORE(-0.02)[country: CA(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:18988, ipnet:23.235.64.0/20, country:CA]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:52:09 -0000 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: on picb19 > vmx1: 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