Hi Community,
VMXNET3 can not be loaded at booting our CentOS 7.3 guest running on ESXi 5.5, and e1000 is running. Can I use the driver instead of e1000 which has been running by default?
# uname -a; more /etc/redhat-release
Linux CENTOS7DEMO 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 16:42:41 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
# dmesg | grep -i 'vmxnet'
# dmesg | grep -i 'e1000'
[ 1.622048] e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k8-NAPI
[ 1.622052] e1000: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
[ 1.971854] e1000 0000:02:00.0 eth0: (PCI:66MHz:32-bit) 00:0c:29:66:f5:81
[ 1.971868] e1000 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 2.723819] e1000: ens32 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
I've done following so far:
- Install open-vm-tools 10.0.5.52125 (build-3227872) with yum.
- Execute the command in the PoserCLI shown below, please see the output as well.
PowerCLI C:> get-vm -name 'MyVM' | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter -type "vmxnet3"
(press Y + Enter)
Set-NetworkAdapter : 2017/03/06 11:57:20 Set-NetworkAdapter The specified network adapter type 'Vmxnet3' is n
ot supported by the guest os 'otherLinux64Guest'. Supported types are: e1000
+ get-vm -name 'MyVM' | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter <<<< -type "vmxnet3"
+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Set-NetworkAdapter]、ViError
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VirtualDeviceServiceImpl_TryValidateNetworkAdapterType_NotSupported,VMware.VimA
utomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.VirtualDevice.SetNetworkAdapter
VMXNET3 should be supported on the combination of CentOS 7 and ESXi 5.5 according to compatibility guide.
Is there something that I am missing? Does anyone know how to overcome this problem?
Any advice will be welcome!