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VMXNET(9)                                 Open VM Tools                                 VMXNET(9)

NAME
       vmxnet - vmware kernel module

SYNOPSIS
       modprobe vmxnet

DESCRIPTION
       This  is  a Linux kernel device driver module that drives VMware's fast networking device. As
       it is backed by real (virtual) hardware, it should be automatically loaded by hotplug or udev
       as  needed. For best performance, it is recommended to enable TSO on all interfaces driven by
       vmxnet using ethtool.

       The shell code to do this might look like this:

       if which ethtool >/dev/null 2>&1; then
          for ethif in `ifconfig -a | grep ^eth | cut -d' ' -f1`; do
             ethtool -K $ethif tso on >/dev/null 2>&1
          done fi

       The VMware backend may present the fast networking device as an AMD vlance device instead  of
       the actual vmxnet device.

SEE ALSO
       vmware-checkvm(1)
       vmware-toolbox(1)
       vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
       vmware-user(1)
       vmware-xferlogs(1)
       libguestlib(3)
       libvmtools(3)
       vmware-guestd(8)
       vmware-user-suid-wrapper(1)
       vmblock(9)
       vmci(9)
       vmmemctl(9)
       vmsock(9)
       vmsync(9)
       vmxnet3(9)

HOMEPAGE
       More    information    about   vmxnet   and   the   Open   VM   Tools   can   be   found   at
       <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR
       Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.

       This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-bau-
       mann.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

2010.03.20-243334                           2010-04-08                                  VMXNET(9)