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@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@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@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@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 ** Attachment added: "lshw.tar.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614271/+attachment/4723005/+files/lshw.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614271 Title: virtual nic with vmxnet3 driver has 1Gbit/s capacity instead of 10Gbit/s in trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lshw/+bug/1614271/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs