Virtualbox + IPv6

[Matthew Huff]

Gert,

As I'm dealing with a possible VMWare rollout, do you have any details? Was it the e1000, VXNET2, or VXNET3 driver? And what
OS/version?

Under Linux, the default pxelinux.bin boot doesn't support VXNET2 or VXNET3, so if you are doing a custom Linux kickstart, you
either have to:

1) Just use e1000 driver in production (doesn't have true hardware virtualization support)
2) Use a kickstart finish script to install the vmware tools, and move eth0 from e1000 to vxnet device
3) Build a custom pxelinux.bin binary (which I'm working on) that include the VXNET2 and/or VXNET3 driver.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-ops-bounces+mhuff=ox.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-
> bounces+mhuff=ox.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:39 AM
> To: Jared Mauch
> Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: Virtualbox + IPv6
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > i'm curious if there's anyone here that has seen this ipv6 performance issue with hosts in a VM:
> >
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9380
> 
> We've had issues in vmware, which was caused by IPv6 TSO not working
> properly in the virtual network hardware (and the vmware-tools installer
> just enables tso without asking).  Might be related or not.
> 
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster
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> have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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