What are the features I get by enabling procps and libdnet support? What would I be missing if I do not have them?
I have added procps and libdnet to my build but I don't see any difference in my vSphere client. James On 24-May-10 11:47 Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > Hi James, > > On 05/22/2010 07:17 PM, James wrote: >> After installing and starting it I get a number of warnings >> about /etc/redhat-release, /etc/redhat-version etc type files not found. >> There were different ones for various distributions but I have >> a 2.6.23 kernel from scratch. >> Google couldn't tell me anything about what should be in those files >> so I created the redhat versions of them and added a version number >> string >> of "5.4" to it. > > The easiest way to get rid of those warnings is to have a working > "lsb_release" executable in your system. The code will first try to > execute "lsb_release -sd" and then fall back to looking at a bunch of > release files (for compatibility with older distributions). > > Here's a sample output from my Ubuntu box: > > $ lsb_release -sd > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > >> This seems to have silenced those warnings but I still get [guestinfo] >> warnings "Failed to get vmstats" and "Failed to get nic info". > > The vmstats warning might be because you did not compile with procps > support. The warning is a little too strong in that case (and we should > probably make it less so), but you don't need to worry about it if > that's the case. > > The 'nic info' warning is similarly explained if you didn't compile with > libdnet support. Same thing, if that's the case, no need to worry, > although I understand the warning is annoying. :-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
