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-hgfsclient(1)vmware-toolbox(1)vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)vmware-user(1)vmware-xferlogs(1)libguestlib(3)libvmtools(3)vmware-guestd(8)vmware-hgfsmounter(8)vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)vmblock(9)vmci(9)vmhgfs(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 <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMXNET(9)
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VMHGFS(9) Open VM Tools VMHGFS(9)NAME
vmhgfs - vmware kernel module
SYNOPSIS
modprobe vmhgfs
DESCRIPTION
This is kernel filesystem module. None of the Tools components depend on vmhgfs, nor does it have any dependencies of its own, so it can be
loaded at any time in the boot process.
When mounting, one must use an NFS-like "<host>:<export>" syntax. The <host> field must be ".host", while the <export> field can be "/", a
path to a specific Shared Folder, or a path to a subdirectory within that Shared Folder. Note that mounting may fail if Shared Folders are
disabled in the host; don't be alarmed. The vmhgfs filesystem supports a plethora of mount options, run vmware-hgfsmounter(8)-h to see
them. We typically exclude vmhgfs from the locate database as crawling the Shared Folders is time consuming. To do this, add "vmhgfs" to
PRUNEFS within updatedb's configuration file, typically found in /etc/updatedb.conf.
We also typically mount vmhgfs via:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs
Or by adding this line to /etc/fstab:
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults 0 0
The net effect is that all Shared Folders appear and disappear at /mnt/hgfs as they're added or removed.
OPTIONS
vmhgfs has no options.
SEE ALSO vmware-checkvm(1)vmware-hgfsclient(1)vmware-toolbox(1)vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)vmware-user(1)vmware-xferlogs(1)libguestlib(3)libvmtools(3)vmware-guestd(8)vmware-hgfsmounter(8)vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)vmblock(9)vmci(9)vmmemctl(9)vmsock(9)vmsync(9)vmxnet(9)vmxnet3(9)HOMEPAGE
More information about vmhgfs 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 <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMHGFS(9)