Hi!
I use gsx server 3.2.1. I have on 2 occasions on 2 days had a nic dropout for a short while. I dont know if its releated to overload or whatever. I run it on a win2k3 host with a debian guest. Its on the guest i'v seen the problem. outout from kernel log is(tail -n25 /var/log/debug):
Feb 26 22:58:57 localhost kernel: vmxnet_close: Pending xmits = 1
Feb 26 22:58:57 localhost kernel: vmxnet_init_ring: offset=9016 length=9016
and the day after
Feb 27 21:29:51 localhost kernel: vmxnet_close: Pending xmits = 1
Feb 27 21:29:51 localhost kernel: vmxnet_init_ring: offset=9016 length=9016
I compiled the driver for vmxnet from the source driver on the vmware-tools cd. I did get some warnings but the driver has worked flawlessly otherwise.
from kompile:
make
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-cks4-Scitzed/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15'
CC /home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.o
In file included from /home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:32:
/home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vm_version.h:55:8: warning: "VMX86_ALPHA" is not defined
/home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vm_version.h:57:10: warning: "VMX86_BETA" is not defined
/home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vm_version.h:63:10: warning: "VMX86_RELEASE" is not defined
/home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vm_version.h:65:10: warning: "VMX86_OPT" is not defined
/home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vm_version.h:67:10: warning: "VMX86_DEBUG" is not defined
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.mod.o
LD /home/scitz0/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15'
cp -f vmxnet.ko ./../vmxnet.o
I then just copied the vmxnet.ko file to /lib/modules/2.6.15-cks4-Scitzed/net/ and ran depmod -a and modprobe vmxnet and everything was fine.
Is there any way to solve why the nic goes down?