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<font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Hi,<br />
<br />
During my testing of hardy alpha 4 on VMware ESX 3.0.2 I have so far found a problem with the network<br />
driver. Im using linux-virtual as my kernel.<br />
<br />
As I understand it the pcnet32 driver should be replaced with the vmxnet driver. The kernel loads both the pcnet32 and<br />
the vmxnet driver. This causes a problem since we need to rmmod both pcnet32 and vmxnet driver and then modprobe<br />
the vmxnet driver again and finally restart networking!<br />
<br />
There is also a bug in the open-vm-tools package. The /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools script calls a function named vmxnet_needed<br />
but doesn't check the return value from the function using $?. Either that or this is due to my limited knowledge of dash...<br />
<br />
----< cut >----<br />
--- open-vm-tools 2008-02-10 20:14:20.000000000 +0100<br />
+++ /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools 2008-02-10 20:15:30.000000000 +0100<br />
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@<br />
log_progress_msg "vmhgfs"; modprobe vmhgfs<br />
log_progress_msg "vmmemctl"; modprobe vmmemctl<br />
log_end_msg 0<br />
- if vmxnet_needed <br />
+<br />
+ vmxnet_needed<br />
+ if [ $? -eq 1 ] <br />
then<br />
rmmod pcnet32<br />
modprobe vmxnet<br />
@@ -63,7 +65,9 @@<br />
kill `cat /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid`<br />
fi <br />
log_end_msg 0<br />
- if vmxnet_needed <br />
+<br />
+ vmxnet_needed<br />
+ if [ $? -eq 1 ] <br />
then<br />
rmmod vmxnet<br />
modprobe pcnet32<br />
----< cut >----<br />
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