Hi Dave,

your are right - the driver gets loaded - but the nic is not there as a device (vmnic0/1). what do I have to do to keep the driver loaded automatically after reboot ?

Thanks
kutte

If you use vmkload_mod to load the driver and it loads correctly the NIC should should up in esxcfg-nics -l. If it doesn't then you'd want to look at /var/log/messages to see why it did not.

Once you have the driver loading ok then you'll want to create an oem.tgz file to hold the driver and a new simple.map file (and optionally pci.ids).

Hi geppi,

Could you try to put some files (over 1GB) to W2K3 VM over Remote Desktop connection disk mapping and check transfer speed?

Writing 1024MB to a Windows share on the W2K3 VM in 29s, ~35MB/s
Reading 1024MB from the Windows share on the W2K3 VM in 37s, ~28MB/s

The limiting factor in above tests was obviously my old Laptop PATA drive as the peer to the VM.

Quick test writing from the VM to my NAS server:

1024MB in 15s, ~68MB/s

This looks like the limiting factor is now the single SATA drive in the VM.

So, I don't see any problem with those numbers.

Oh well.. VMXNET3 seemed to work fine.. RDP is working just fine !

.. but .. (you figured that was coming right ?)

I'm having problems with other applications. Namely I was trying to communicate from a TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) client from an outside machine with a TSM server running under ESXi.. And boom.. Nothing worked (I couldn't even begin a simple transaction..) - kept on getting TCP Communication errors (unfortunately, it's not very verbose at what kind of error it is getting).

Reverting to a E1000 with checksumming turned off fixed it.

--Ivan

please help. I need to put these drivers on ESX 4, not esxi. Who will tell, how?

if 100% is impossible - i have problem with esxi4 network 8111 - sometimes completely falls off.
I changes the speed and duplex to 10 full duplex - worked 3 min.
falls again.
change to 100 full duplex - again worked 3 min

and now, i have this screen on my esxi 4 with this oem.tgz....
please help.....

Driver from this topic works like a charm with Asus P5B Realtek RTL8168B/8111B integrated NIC.

I have a D945GCLF2 motherboard with the intel atom chip and can't replace the onboard NIC as I need the single PCI slot for an SATA controller.

Geppi's original driver was freezing up on me.

My first attempt at virtualizing on OpenSolaris brought me to this thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa ... eID=427574

It turned out I needed ESXi to virtualize windows though, which brought me here.

From the first one, I recalled that some problems were introduced on r8168 chips because the solaris driver incorrectly identified some r8168 chps as on a PCI bus rather than on a PCI express bus.

It turns out that Realtek introduced another driver version today on their download site and diffs against the previous (8.014.000) version indicated some pci-e language.

Attached is a tarfile including:
- The 8.015.000 driver from realtek's website
- Patch files to re-introduce Geppi's changes
- An oem.tgz file that I used on my system

Caveats:
The driver loaded, but I haven't had time to let it run yet.
Geppi's ahci mods are not included.

An update, 8.015.000 is hanging the NIC on the D945GCLF2 board as well.