Tag: VMXNET3

VMware Workstation 15.0.1 and Fusion 11.0.1 released

VMware has released Workstation 15.0.1 and Fusion 11.0.1, this comes with support for new Operating Systems and fix for the security issue with the VMXNET3 network adapter. New supported OS is: Ubuntu 18.10 Fedora 29 RHEL 7.6 See the release notes for Workstation 15.0.1 here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15/rn/workstation-1501-release-notes.html See the release notes for Fusion 11.0.1 here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/11/rn/fusion-1101-release-notes.html

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By Allan Kjaer November 10, 2018 0

VMware ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 patch released

VMware has released a new patch for ESXi 6.0, 6.5 og 6.7. This fixes a security issue with the VMXNET3 driver, and the 6.7 patch also contains some vSAN and replications fixes. See the ESXi 6.0 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/rn/esxi600-201811001.html See the ESXi 6.5 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/esxi650-201811001.html See the ESXi 6.7 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/esxi670-201811001.html

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By Allan Kjaer November 9, 2018 3

VMware Tools 10.3.2 Released

Last week VMware pulled VMware Tools 10.3.0 because of a potential PSOD issue when using the VMXNET3 driver, you can see the KB here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57796 Today VMware released VMware Tools 10.3.2, that fixes this problem. What's new: VMware Tools 10.3.2 supports the following guest operating systems: windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later.  VMware Tools 10.3.0 depends on…

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By Allan Kjaer September 12, 2018 2

ESXi 6.0 and network performance issue

I have had a few customers that had a performance issue, when running in certain combination: ESXi 6.0 Windows 2012 / Windows 8 or later Virtual hardware 11 / Compatibility 6.0 or later VMXNET3 network card 1.6.6.0 (this is part of newer VMware Tools) or later There is VMware KB on this, that have a solution: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2129176 I have used…

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By Allan Kjaer April 8, 2016 9