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-baumann.ch>, for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).