•E1000 — Intel 82545EM 千兆以太网卡的模拟版本。优点:性能高;缺点:普通的客户操作系统都不会内置该网卡的驱动程序,比较新的操作系统上会包含该网卡的驱动程序(Linux versions 2.4.19 and later, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and later, and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) and later)
•VMXNET 2 (Enhanced) — 是VMXNET网卡的增强版本, 提供了现代网络的一些高性能技术特性(jumbo frames,hardware offloads)。优点:高性能;缺点:只能适用于ESX/ESXI3.5及以上平台上的有限的客户操作系统:
32 and 64bit versions of Microsoft Windows 2003 (Enterprise and Datacenter Editions).
(其他Windows 2003版本也可以支持,但需要作一些额外设置)
32bit version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional
32 and 64bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
32 and 64bit versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
64bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
64bit versions of Ubuntu Linux
•VMXNET 3 — 与VMXNET or VMXNET 2没有关系(仅名字相似),是下一代高性能并行虚拟网卡,除涵盖VMXNET所有高性能技术特性外,还提供更多高性能特性:multiqueue support (Windows下称Receive Side Scaling ), IPv6 offloads, and MSI/MSI-X interrupt delivery。缺点:仅适用于Version 7的虚拟机和更新的客户操作系统:
32 and 64bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2.
32 and 64bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and later
32 and 64bit versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later
32 and 64bit versions of Asianux 3 and later
32 and 64bit versions of Debian 4
32 and 64bit versions of Ubuntu 7.04 and later
32 and 64bit versions of Sun Solaris 10 U4 and later