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SubjectRe: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:53:09 +0100
"roland" <devzero@web.de> wrote:

> > The ipv6 module cannot be unloaded once it has been
> > loaded.
>
> sorry, i thought i could rmmod evey module which was insmod/modprobe'd
> before and i didn`t know that there are exceptions
>
> > I'm not sure what is happened with vmware.
>
> i think this is not completely related to vmware - but maybe this is being
> triggered more often by vmware ?
> http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=%22unregister_netdevice%3A+waiting+for+eth0+to+become+free
>
> it`s really strange, but after taking a look, vmware seems to recommend
> disabling ipv6 for _every_ linux based guest OS in general:
> http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=gos_ww5_output&file=choose_install_guest_os.html
>
> since there are already running millions of linux based VMs in this world,
> i think this isn`t very good "promotion" for ipv6, if vmware recommending
> disabling it.
> ok, there are not that much people already needing ipv6 NOW, but the later
> they are running it and the later outstanding bugs being fixed, the harder
> it will be to convert from ipv4 to ipv6....
>
> roland
>
>

Vmware has there own pseudo ethernet device and unless you have the source for it.
It would be hard to tell if it correctly manages itself.


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