NAME
vic
—
VMware VMXnet Virtual Interface
Controller device
SYNOPSIS
vic* at pci?
DESCRIPTION
The vic
driver provides support for the
VMXnet 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.
This driver supports the vmxnet
driver
protocol, as an alternative to the emulated
pcn(4) and em(4) interfaces also available in the VMware environment.
The vic
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.
The vic
driver supports VMware virtual
NICs provided by the following products:
- VMware ESX 2.0 and newer
- VMware GSX 2.5 and newer
- VMware Server 1.0 and newer
- VMware Workstation 4.5 and newer
- VMware Fusion 1.0 and newer
The vic
driver supports the following
media types:
- 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.
For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).
EXAMPLES
The following entry must be added to the VMware configuration file
to provide the vic
device:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet"
SEE ALSO
arp(4), em(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), pcn(4), vmx(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
AUTHORS
The vic
driver was written by
Reyk Floeter
<reyk@openbsd.org>
and David Gwynne
<dlg@openbsd.org>.
BUGS
There are tons of bugs in VMware and the underlying host operating systems. Please consider that the security of the OpenBSD guest can be circumvented by attacking the host environment.