VMX(4) | Kernel Interfaces Manual | VMX(4) |
This driver supports the VMXNET3 driver protocol, as an alternative to the emulated pcn(4), wm(4) interfaces also available in the VMware environment. The vmx driver is optimized for the virtual machine, it can provide advanced capabilities depending on the underlying host operating system and the physical network interface controller of the host. In comparison to the earlier VMXNET versions, VMXNET3 supports additional features like multiqueue support, IPv6 checksum offloading, MSI/MSI-X support and hardware VLAN tagging in VMware's VLAN Guest Tagging (VGT) mode.
The vmx driver supports VMXNET3 VMware virtual NICs provided by the virtual machine hardware version 7 or newer, as provided by the following products:
The vmx driver supports the following media types:
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"
June 7, 2014 | NetBSD 7.2 |