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Sean_McMahon_82
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Nov 02, 2010

LTM 10.2 VE on VMware Workstation 7

Hi team, Has anyone tried to get 10.2 VE running on a VMware workstation 7 machine.     Im having issues with the network adaptors been initialized.       Inside the interface they seem ...
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qe_102628
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Nov 02, 2010
Sometimes Workstation won't startup VMXNET3 without pciE root bridges being present.

In addition to changing the virtualDev type to vmxnet3, you'll need to add this to the .vmx:

pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"

technically, one can add just one pcieRootPort, but I've not tried that with the full 9 VMXNET3 configuration so I've shown you what ESX and ESXi deploy in their .vmx files.