man > vmxnet(9)

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)