Subject: debian-installer: Enable VMware modules on installer images. Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist
*** Please type your report below this line *** Hi. For quite a while now, the linux-image-* packages have had support for the VMware modules such as vmxnet3 and vmw_pvscsi. However, the daily builds for the Debian installer do not. It would be very handy if at least the vmxnet3 and vmw_pvscsi modules were enabled by default in the businesscard/netinstaller ISO files. That way, new virtual machines created on VMware ESX/ESXi can use the VMXNET3 network adapter; and a Paravirtual SCSI controller on the boot drive. Without these modules, both the network and hard disk can't be detected at install time unless the slower E1000 network adapter and LSI SCSI controllers are used instead. The E1000 network adapter can easily be changed to a VMXNET3 adapter after the install, but the Paravirtual SCSI change on the boot device is non-trivial. Regards, -- ---------- Jim Barber DDI Health -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e2e5baa.1060...@ddihealth.com
