[Bug 1614271] [NEW] virtual nic with vmxnet3 driver has 1Gbit/s capacity instead of 10Gbit/s in trusty

Larry Michel larry.michel at canonical.com
Wed Aug 17 21:15:35 UTC 2016


Public bug reported:

In trusty, properties for virtual vmxnet3 NIC from an ESXi 6.0 virtual
machine are showing 1Gbit/s capacity. In Xenial, it's showing speed
10Gbit/s.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:	14.04

This is for trusty:

        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: PCI Express Root Port
             vendor: VMware
             physical id: 15
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:15.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:40 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:fd400000-fd4fffff ioport:c0000000(size=3145728)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller
                vendor: VMware
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 01
                serial: 00:50:56:87:40:8a
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical logical tp 1000bt-fd
                configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=vmxnet3 driverversion=1.2.0.0-k-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.244.241.14 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
                resources: irq:18 memory:fd4fc000-fd4fcfff memory:fd4fd000-fd4fdfff memory:fd4fe000-fd4fffff ioport:4000(size=16) memory:c0000000-c000ffff

For Xenial:

        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: PCI Express Root Port
             vendor: VMware
             physical id: 15
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:15.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:24 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:fd400000-fd4fffff ioport:c0000000(size=2097152)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller
                vendor: VMware
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 01
                serial: 00:50:56:87:40:8a
                size: 10Gbit/s
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical logical tp 1000bt-fd
                configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=vmxnet3 driverversion=1.4.5.0-k-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.244.241.12 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
                resources: irq:18 memory:fd4fc000-fd4fcfff memory:fd4fd000-fd4fdfff memory:fd4fe000-fd4fffff ioport:4000(size=16) memory:fd400000-fd40ffff

lshw output and versions are attached.

** Affects: lshw (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: oil

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Title:
  virtual nic with vmxnet3 driver has 1Gbit/s capacity instead of
  10Gbit/s in trusty

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In trusty, properties for virtual vmxnet3 NIC from an ESXi 6.0 virtual
  machine are showing 1Gbit/s capacity. In Xenial, it's showing speed
  10Gbit/s.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  This is for trusty:

          *-pci:2
               description: PCI bridge
               product: PCI Express Root Port
               vendor: VMware
               physical id: 15
               bus info: pci at 0000:00:15.0
               version: 01
               width: 32 bits
               clock: 33MHz
               capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi normal_decode bus_master cap_list
               configuration: driver=pcieport
               resources: irq:40 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:fd400000-fd4fffff ioport:c0000000(size=3145728)
             *-network
                  description: Ethernet interface
                  product: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller
                  vendor: VMware
                  physical id: 0
                  bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
                  logical name: eth0
                  version: 01
                  serial: 00:50:56:87:40:8a
                  capacity: 1Gbit/s
                  width: 32 bits
                  clock: 33MHz
                  capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical logical tp 1000bt-fd
                  configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=vmxnet3 driverversion=1.2.0.0-k-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.244.241.14 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
                  resources: irq:18 memory:fd4fc000-fd4fcfff memory:fd4fd000-fd4fdfff memory:fd4fe000-fd4fffff ioport:4000(size=16) memory:c0000000-c000ffff

  For Xenial:

          *-pci:2
               description: PCI bridge
               product: PCI Express Root Port
               vendor: VMware
               physical id: 15
               bus info: pci at 0000:00:15.0
               version: 01
               width: 32 bits
               clock: 33MHz
               capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi normal_decode bus_master cap_list
               configuration: driver=pcieport
               resources: irq:24 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:fd400000-fd4fffff ioport:c0000000(size=2097152)
             *-network
                  description: Ethernet interface
                  product: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller
                  vendor: VMware
                  physical id: 0
                  bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
                  logical name: eth0
                  version: 01
                  serial: 00:50:56:87:40:8a
                  size: 10Gbit/s
                  width: 32 bits
                  clock: 33MHz
                  capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical logical tp 1000bt-fd
                  configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=vmxnet3 driverversion=1.4.5.0-k-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.244.241.12 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
                  resources: irq:18 memory:fd4fc000-fd4fcfff memory:fd4fd000-fd4fdfff memory:fd4fe000-fd4fffff ioport:4000(size=16) memory:fd400000-fd40ffff

  lshw output and versions are attached.

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