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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/vmx.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
docs: OpenBSD Man Pages Added
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/vmx.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/vmx.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f8d5fc2c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/vmx.4 @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: vmx.4,v 1.2 2017/10/17 22:47:58 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2013 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 17 2017 $ +.Dt VMX 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vmx +.Nd VMware VMXNET3 Virtual Interface Controller device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd vmx* at pci? +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the VMXNET3 virtual NIC available in virtual +machines by VMware. +It appears as a simple Ethernet device but is actually a virtual network +interface to the underlying host operating system. +.Pp +This driver supports the +.Ic VMXNET3 +driver protocol, as an alternative to the emulated +.Xr pcn 4 , +.Xr em 4 +and the earlier VMXNET +.Xr vic 4 +interfaces also available in the VMware environment. +The +.Nm vmx +driver is optimized for the virtual machine, it can provide advanced +capabilities depending on the underlying host operating system and +the physical network interface controller of the host. +In comparison to the earlier VMXNET versions, +as supported by the +.Xr vic 4 +driver, +VMXNET3 supports additional features like multiqueue support, IPv6 +checksum offloading, MSI/MSI-X support and hardware VLAN tagging in +VMware's VLAN Guest Tagging (VGT) mode. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports VMXNET3 VMware virtual NICs provided by the virtual +machine hardware version 7 or newer, as provided by the following +products: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent +.It +VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 and newer +.It +VMware Server 2.0 and newer +.It +VMware Workstation 6.5 and newer +.It +VMware Fusion 2.0 and newer +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width autoselect +.It autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The driver always uses the fastest available speed and the media +options provided by the underlying host of the virtual machine. +.It 10GbaseT mediaopt full-duplex +Set 10Gbps operation. +.It 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex +Set 1000Mbps operation. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following entry must be added to the VMware configuration file +to provide the +.Nm +device: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr em 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr pcn 4 , +.Xr vic 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 5.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Tsubai Masanari . |
