Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware.

[Mike Silbersack]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Darren Reed wrote:

>> But if if_em is probing, it suggests a VMware
>> change rather than a FreeBSD change, which you may be able to revert by
>> telling it to expose a Lance-style device as opposed to an Intel device.
>
> There's no way to choose the type of card vmware emulates.

I don't have any 64-bit guest capable processors, but at least with 32-bit 
guests you can switch between lance and em emulation just by editing the 
vmware config file.  Google around, you'll find the setting.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack