Re: 4.4 on ESXi 3.5 (was: vic(4) on amd64)

2009-03-11 Thread SJP Lists
2009/3/12 : > I discovered a severe performance problem, wherein an OpenBSD guest would > run fine for some period of hours, and then become horribly bogged down > during disk operations, to the point of unusability. This was true even > when the guest was nearly idle and the VM host had abundan

Re: 4.4 on ESXi 3.5 (was: vic(4) on amd64)

2009-03-11 Thread Guilherme Malschitzky Schroeder
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Josh Archambault wrote: > >> I'm fairly confident that using anything other than the default "e1000" >> network device with 64-bit guests is discouraged by VMWare. > > It would appear that you're correct

4.4 on ESXi 3.5 (was: vic(4) on amd64)

2009-03-11 Thread dtalk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Archambault wrote: I'm fairly confident that using anything other than the default "e1000" network device with 64-bit guests is discouraged by VMWare. It would appear that you're correct. Though the documentation does not make that clear, I

Re: vic(4) on amd64

2009-03-11 Thread Josh Archambault
I see that the vic(4) driver is still not in amd64/conf/GENERIC. Has anyone any recent experience with this driver+platform, or know whether its absence reflects a known problem or just lack of testing? For the record, it works fine for me on an i386 guest on ESXi 3.5 U3, with adaptor type "flexi

vic(4) on amd64

2009-03-08 Thread dtalk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Salutations -- I see that the vic(4) driver is still not in amd64/conf/GENERIC. Has anyone any recent experience with this driver+platform, or know whether its absence reflects a known problem or just lack of testing? For the record, it works fi