On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, >>> assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to >>> install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via >>> open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon. >>> >>> Device Drivers --> >>> [*] Misc devices ---> >>> <M> VMware Balloon Driver >>> SCSI device support ---> >>> [*] SCSI low-level drivers ---> >>> <*> VMware PVSCSI driver support >>> [*] Network device support >>> <M> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver >>> >>> (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory >>> management between host& guest). > >> So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, >> too? > > Yes. And you'll need to add a few of those drivers to your > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or /etc/conf.d/modules (whichever you > have). Mine currently loads: > > vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync > >
Ahhh, okay. Gotcha. Thanks for the clear explanation :-) -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
