I just finished an install of FreeBSD 8.0-Stable via CD installation as a virtual host under ESXi 4 Update 1. The installation went smooth and I even was able to install VMWare tools after compiling them from source. I have the VMXNet2 Enhanced driver selected for the network and have configured in the rc.conf file an entry for
During the boot process vmware tools are successfully loaded but the address is not assigned. If I manually run ifconfig to assign the address after boot everything works fine until the next restart. Alternatively if I switch to the e1000 driver and switched the rc.conf file references for ifconfig_vxn0 to ifconfig_em0 everything works fine. Any suggestions on how to correct this to get the VMXNet2 Enhanced driver to run under FreeBSD 8.0?
Code:
ifconfig_vxn0="inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.240.0"
ifconfig_vxn0="up"