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Title: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: faxophone on July 16, 2007, 07:21:09 PM

Hi to everybody,
I install sme server 7.1 under VmWare Server 1.03, after install vmware tools how can I set sme to use full gigabit lan drivers?
I also visit a website, www.easyvmx.net, that, without installing vmware tools, permits to create a virtual machine with an intel e1000 gigabit lan board, but how can I force to use these driver? The system works but seems to not use gigabit lan.

 I need to configure under vmware a sme server full gigabit, is it possible?

Thanks in advance,
Fabrizio

Title: Re: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: TrevorB on July 17, 2007, 07:17:14 AM

Quote from: "faxophone"

I also visit a website, www.easyvmx.net, that, without installing vmware tools, permits to create a virtual machine with an intel e1000 gigabit lan board, but how can I force to use these driver?

By default VMWare uses the pcnet32 driver. If you generate a RHEL4 image from http://www.easyvmx.com and look at the generated .vmx file you will see a line

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ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"You can simply modify your local .vmx file to this same setting.

BTW. I'd install the vmware-tools

Trevor B

Title: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: faxophone on July 17, 2007, 08:50:13 AM

Yes, but i'm not sure if after install VmWare Tools my lan card drivers change!

Title: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: bpivk on July 17, 2007, 10:10:24 AM

Quote from: "faxophone"

Yes, but i'm not sure if after install VmWare Tools my lan card drivers change!

They don't. You'll get a few virtual lan cards so don't worry.

Title: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: faxophone on July 17, 2007, 01:55:38 PM

Ok, but the problem is still the same, connection isn't faster.
I make a test with DiskTT, a data transfer benchmark utility, to understand if performance could be increase by installing a fastest virtual lan card or vmware tools and the result is still the same, nothing change.
My Pc is a well equipped computer, Athlon X2 3800+, 2Gb Ram, four 320 Gbyte HD in Raid 5 and two Intel e1000 lan card, everything on a Windows XP Os. Could be an hardware problem? Is there a solution to know if the lan card in sme is set to 1Gbit?

Thanks in advance,
Fabrizio

Title: Gigabit connection in a vmware sme server setup
Post by: TrevorB on July 18, 2007, 07:34:53 AM

Quote from: "faxophone"

Is there a solution to know if the lan card in sme is set to 1Gbit?

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ifconfig eth0This should give you the information on throughput of eth0 (if you have defined more than one virtual nic, you may need to look at eth1 as well).

Also think about which nic you have running with the e1000 device driver (default behaviour for smeserver is that eth0 is the internal LAN and eth1 is the external). You may need to set/define your other virtual nic as well eg.

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ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"It may help to walk through the configuration again to see that smeserver has picked up the changed cards (ie. go to a console, login as admin and select item 2. Configure this server)

Trevor B