From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 6 07:32:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512DADF0 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [212.247.52.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9FE2CD4 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vnode.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2678DE3F07A; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:32:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vnode.se Received: from mail.vnode.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id coM7Ro+bjOoj; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:32:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.101.106.159] (edsfw.benders.se [212.247.52.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 153B5E3F079; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:32:17 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Subject: Re: [CFT] VMware vmxnet3 ethernet driver From: Joel Dahl In-Reply-To: <671854288.1036.1375769120756.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:32:18 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <1050637258.686.1375660230986.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <601099152.721.1375661537866.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <20130805202039.GA18861@devbox.vnode.local> <1174186801.993.1375743121722.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> <20130806050354.GB18861@devbox.vnode.local> <671854288.1036.1375769120756.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org> To: Bryan Venteicher X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) Cc: current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:32:20 -0000 6 aug 2013 kl. 08:05 skrev Bryan Venteicher = : >=20 >=20 > ----- Original Message ----- >> Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several = support cases >> with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far. >>=20 >=20 > Yes, it is not a blackhole of support. At $JOB, we got caught by the = FreeBSD > specific issue of the busted timer that was fixed. But they've less = helpful > in other regards, and have more or less said FreeBSD isn't high in = their > priority because it isn't Linux. >=20 >> Are you aiming at completely replacing VMware tools, or just the = device >> drivers? >>=20 >=20 > I'd like as much as possible to work out of the box. vmxnet3 is as far = as > my current interests go. OpenBSD has a vmt device that apparently does = (at > least the important bits of) what vmtoolsd does; I'll look at that = closer > at some point. Cool. I didn't know about vmt. I read the CVS log in the OpenBSD tree = and it actually seems to do most of what I need. Having all this working out of the box = (without VMware Tools installed) would be most welcome. =85but I guess VMware would consider this an unsupported configuration = or something like that, which sucks if/when I need to contact their support. -- Joel=