Virtualization, Servers and Storage : After upgrading VMware Tools on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine, VMXNET, VMXNET3 and Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) drivers are not upgraded

Created by JM Lopez, last modified on Oct 19, 2022

Problem

After you upgrade VMware Tools on a Linux virtual machine, the new versions of VMXNET, VMXNET3 and PVSCSI drivers are not loaded in the guest operating system.

Solution

Follow the steps in this VMware KB article After Upgrading VMware Tools on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine, VMXNET, VMXNET3 and Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) drivers are not upgraded (2050364)