I can confirm that sudo ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off worked here on a 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) with vmware server from ubuntu commersial repository.
I can confirm that
sudo ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off
worked here on a 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
with vmware server from ubuntu commersial repository.