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Bug 909030

Summary: [ESX 6.4 document] Drivers information is incomplete in Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Shengnan Wang <shwang>
Component: doc-Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_GuiAssignee: Tahlia Richardson <trichard>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.4CC: alyoung, jingli, ldu, leiwang, shwang, trichard, yacao
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Description Shengnan Wang 2013-02-08 05:20:16 UTC 
Description of problem:

1. Five drivers are added into the RHEL6 guest. However, in the document Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide (http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/ch08.html#idp10002304) , list and introduce two drivers (vmxnet3 ; vmw_pvscsi). (file attached: "Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide_ESX.jpg")

Other three drivers should be added into the Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and onward provide the vmware_balloon driver, a para-virtualized memory ballooning driver used when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on VMWare hosts. For further information about this driver, refer to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1002586.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and onward provide the vmmouse_drv driver, a para-virtualized mouse driver used when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on VMWare hosts. For further information about this driver, refer to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=5739104. 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and onward provide the vmware_drv driver, a para-virtualized video driver used when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on VMWare hosts. For further information about this driver, refer to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1033557. 


2. There are two parts in 'Chapter 8'. One is '8.1. On VMWare', and the other is '8.2. On Hyper-V'. Hyper-V is the name of the Microsoft's Windows Server Virtualization product. However, VMWare is the company name and its virtualization product called VMware ESX. It is not identical in my opinion. What's your idea about this issue?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Guest: RHEL6.4 guest (2.6.32-358.el6)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

In the document, only two ESX drivers are listed and introduced.

Expected results:

In the document, list and introduce all five ESX drivers.

Additional info:

1. The same issue met in the 6-Beta Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide page.(http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/ch08.html#idp11869688)

2. Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798086
Comment 1 Shengnan Wang 2013-02-08 05:21:10 UTC 
Created attachment 694935 [details]
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