chrispitude
11-10-06, 12:28 PM
Hi all,
There is a known incompatibility between VMPlayer and the forcedeth driver which causes extremely slow network communications between the host and guest:
VMPlayer Forums thread (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=408893)
There was a workaround where you could install nvnet, disable forcedeth, and add some settings to the nvnet invocation:
FedoraForum thread (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=105185&highlight=nvnet)
However, nvnet no longer seems to be available and now there is no alternative except to install a third-party network card and disable the nVidia LAN.
This seems to be a software issue with the forcedeth driver, as the underlying hardware worked great with nvnet. I am posting this to let nVidia and the user community know about this. It'd be nice to see a fix so I can pull this 3com PCI 10/100 card out of my system. :)
- Chris
There is a known incompatibility between VMPlayer and the forcedeth driver which causes extremely slow network communications between the host and guest:
VMPlayer Forums thread (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=408893)
There was a workaround where you could install nvnet, disable forcedeth, and add some settings to the nvnet invocation:
FedoraForum thread (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=105185&highlight=nvnet)
However, nvnet no longer seems to be available and now there is no alternative except to install a third-party network card and disable the nVidia LAN.
This seems to be a software issue with the forcedeth driver, as the underlying hardware worked great with nvnet. I am posting this to let nVidia and the user community know about this. It'd be nice to see a fix so I can pull this 3com PCI 10/100 card out of my system. :)
- Chris