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About
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**VPP Version:** 19.01-rc0~497-g05ce4b8
**VPP Version:** 19.04-rc0~102-g22c0ece
**Built on:** Mon Dec 17 20:43:52 GMT 2018
**Built on:** Wed Jan 30 15:37:57 GMT 2019

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without IOMMU vfio driver can still be used with recent kernels which
support no-iommu mode.
VMware Fusion for Mac
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VMware fusion does not have a menu option to change the default driver (e1000)
to the **vmxnet3** driver. VPP supports the **vmxnet3** driver.
These instructions describe how to change the e100 driver for VMware fusion.
* From the VMware Fusion menu bar select **Window** then **Virtual Machine Library**.
* From the Virtual Machine menu right click on the Virtual Machine you are using and select **Show in Finder**
* Find the name associated with the VM you are using, right click on it and select **Show Package Contents**
* Find the **.vmx** file and edit it.
* Find all the occurences of **e1000** and change them to **vmxnet3**
If you are concerned more with configuration not performance the vmxnet3 driver can be set to
**interrupt** mode in VPP. This will save a great deal on battery usage. Do this with the following
.. code-block:: console
# vppctl set interface rx-mode <interface> interrupt
System setup
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