Below is a screenshot of the media link shown in this Mac OS X 10.11 guests.Īlthough this a great development for Apple customers who uses VMware vSphere and Fusion, it also does raise an interesting question on whether Apple would be officially supporting this VMXNET3 driver going forward? If I do receive any more details on this, I will update the article. In addition to having an optimized networking when using the VMXNET3 driver, the other benefit is being able to get a link speed of 10GbE which is something customers have been inquiring about when virtualizing Mac OS X guests. Below is a screenshot of the system info showing the VMXNET3 network adapter.
Once the driver has been loaded, you should now have networking connectivity to your Mac OS X VM using the VMXNET3 network adapter. Step 3 - You can verify that the VMXNET3 driver was successfully loaded by running the following command: Sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleVmxnet3Ethernet.kext Step 2 - Open a terminal inside of the Mac OS X guest and run the following command to load the VMXNET3 driver: Once you have added it to the VM reconfigure wizard, go ahead and toggle back the GuestOS type to Mac OS X 10.10 and then save the settings as shown in the screenshots below. Step 1 - Remove the existing network adapter and then temporarily change the GuestOS type to "Other" (no need to save setting, just update it in VM reconfigure wizard) so that you will be allowed to add a VMXNET3 network adapter.
Below are the instructions on configuring the VMXNET3 network adapter for your Mac OS X guests. VMX file or you can easily add it by using either the vSphere Web/C# Client or ESXi Embedded Host Client. To add a VMXNET3 network adapter, you can either manually tweak the.
This is a pretty neat find because currently today, the only network adapter that is functional with an Apple Mac OS X guest running on either VMware vSphere or Fusion is the e1000. Have to edit the vmx file to actually use it, but it's there! AppleVmxnet3Ethernet.kext Yesterday I received a pretty interesting comment from one of my Twitter followers who Just noticed that OSX has a VMXNET3 driver.
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