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Bug#624794: Please add support for VMWare drivers (vmxnet3 and vmwgfx)



On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:02 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  As Linux 2.6.33, from http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33
> 
> >1.12. VMware drivers
> >VMWare has contributed two drivers for the VWware Virtual GPU, and for
> > the VMware's virtual Ethernet NIC vmxnet3. Thanks to udev, this means
> > that Linux guests running inside a VMware host will have optimal graphic
> > and network performance out-of-the-box.
> >
> >vmwgfx: (commit), (commit) vmxnet3: (commit), (commit)
> 
>  http://git.kernel.org/linus/632f61178d0473861ba77e774bb654b37bc7eccc
>  http://git.kernel.org/linus/fb1d9738ca053ea8afa5e86af6463155f983b01c
> 
>  http://git.kernel.org/linus/d1a890fa37f27d6aca3abc6e25e4148efc3223a6
>  http://git.kernel.org/linus/115924b6bdc7cc6bf7da5b933b09281e1f4e17a9
> 
> 
>  vmw_pvscsi was already backported in Debian (thanks), but we need 
>  network and graphic, too. Enabling those in stable kernel will make
>  some users happier :)

I backported vmxnet3 in package version 2.6.32-3.

We updated all the DRM drivers to upstream version 2.6.33 in package
version 2.6.32-10, but we didn't enable vmwgfx and I think it might need
some later fixes to be usable (based on
http://airlied.livejournal.com/69291.html ).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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