VMware Releases ESX 3.5U3

Seems mostly to be a bugfix + new hardware support patch, although I did see the following nuggets:

• Intel Pro/1000 gigabit Ethernet device drivers (e1000) in some guests allocate MTU bytes for rx buffers, but tell the device the size of the rx buffer is 2048 bytes. If these buffers fall on the edge of the guest physical memory range, the virtual e1000 device could wedge during rx with the following messages in the VMkernel logs:

  WARNING: Alloc: ppn=0xc0000 out of range: 0x0-0xc0000 (count=3)
  WARNING: P2MCache: GetPhysMemRange failed: PPN 0xc0000 canBlock 0 status Bad parameter.

  This patch fixes this problem.

  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007041
  



• Add experimental support for a new utility, the VMDK Recovery Tool.

  More information available at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007243
  

The official release notes are available at: http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35u3_rel_notes.html