Hey everyone,
I have a late 2018 Mac Mini with the latest version of macOS Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226) hosting two guests with the Mojave as well. I am running the latest version of VMware Fusion 11 Pro. I ordered the Mac Mini with a 10GbaseT ethernet NIC and would like to use the guests at that speed too, if possible.
In macguest1 I changed ethernet0.virtualDev to "e1000e", which is only gigabit speeds, and in macguest2 I changed that to "vmxnet3", which should have full 10 gig speeds. Then I installed speedtest-cli from Homebrew and the results are really terrible:
in macguest1:
macguest1:~ admin$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Elisa Oyj (x.x.x.x)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Elisa Oyj (Helsinki) [1.31 km]: 2.075 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 919.85 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 743.70 Mbit/s
and in macguest2:
macguest2:~ admin$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Elisa Oyj (x.x.x.x)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Elisa Oyj (Helsinki) [1.31 km]: 2.087 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 806.86 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 1.68 Mbit/s
It looks like download speed is fine in both VMs, but the upload speed with macguest2, using a virtual 10gig interface, has a maximum speed of <2Mbit/s! I ran this test multiple times from multiple ISPs and got the same results.
If I switch this to "e1000e" on macguest2, then the upload speed matches macguest1, so it's not an issue with the VM.
Both have the latest version of VMware Tools installed:
macguest1:~ admin$ /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/vmware-tools-cli -v
10.3.2.6765 (build-9925305)
macguest2:~ admin$ /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/vmware-tools-cli -v
10.3.2.6765 (build-9925305)
This is a really weird issue and I'm not sure what to test next. Has anyone else seen this on their end?
Thanks!
-Miguel