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VMware ESX Server Administration Guide
2. Use the VMware Management Interface to reconfigure the server. Log in as root
and go to http://<hostname>/pcidivy, then click the Edit link for the
configuration you want to change. Find the table row that lists the Ethernet
controller assigned to the console and click the radio button in the Virtual
Machine column to reassign it.
Click Save Configuration, then reboot the machine when prompted.
3. When the machine reboots, no network adapter is assigned to the service
console, so you must do this step at the server.
Add the appropriate lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. For example, if eth0 is
the only network adapter that you intend to share between the VMkernel and
the service console, and if it is named vmnic0 in the VMkernel, you add the
lines:
insmod vmxnet_console devName=”vmnic0”
ifup eth0
If you are unsure what name the VMkernel has assigned to the network adapter
that formerly was eth0 in the service console, you can determine its name
using the findnic program (see The VMkernel Network Card Locator on
page 361).
Note: The adapter you wish to share may be assigned to an adapter bond. If so,
you need to specify the bond name, of the form bond<n>, instead of the
adapter name. See Finding Bonds and Adapters in the Service Console on
page 370 for instructions on how to find a bond name.
4. The next time you reboot the system, the network adapter is shared by the
service console and the virtual machines.
To begin sharing the network adapter without rebooting the system, you can
manually issue the same commands you added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
insmod vmxnet_console devName=”vmnic0”
ifup eth0
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