From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Apr 16 03:07:20 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 3CF8B1586182 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:07:20 +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 A41BE70079 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:07:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from 254-68-235-23.haidagwaii.net ([23.235.68.254] helo=[192.168.1.8]) by mail.haidagwaii.net with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1hGERI-000Kzf-8y; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:07:16 -0700 Subject: Re: FBSD 11.2 on VMWare ESXi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Pazarena Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:07:15 -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-local_scan: locally submitted (54) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A41BE70079 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 [0.11 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FAKE_REPLY(1.00)[]; 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]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.34)[0.340,0]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.69)[-0.687,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.haidagwaii.net]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.21)[-0.215,0]; 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: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:07:20 -0000 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 . 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