On 02/17/2010 04:46 PM, Joel Webb wrote: > Greetings, > > Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong mailing list. But I wanted to > talk to the horses mouth. > > First off I need some clarification on if we should use the > open-vm-tools OR the proprietary versions that come with the CD. > > I maintain several Linux servers CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu. I am > currently using the vmware-tools-common-8.0.2-208167.el5 that is put in > the CentOS repository. > > >From what it looks like the open tools vs the proprietary versions are > the same, modules that get loaded, where the RPM's were built etc. > Except they show up in VSphere as "Unmanaged" vs "OK". > > Now granted, we would like to use the latest networking drivers etc. and > not have to "recompile" or run vmware-tools-upgrader every single time > we have a kernel update especially for several hundred servers. > > Second, using the open-vm-tools on Ubuntu, when starting the server - I > receive this: > r...@ubuntu:~# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart > Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: > Guest operating system daemon: done > Unmounting HGFS shares: done > Guest filesystem driver: done > Guest memory manager: done > VM communication interface socket family: done > VM communication interface: done > Checking acpi hot plug done > Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: > Switching to guest configuration: done > Paravirtual SCSI module: failed > Guest memory manager: failed > VM communication interface: failed > VM communication interface socket family: failed > Guest operating system daemon: done > > > Any thoughts?
Each distro has its own way of packaging kernel modules, and I believe with Ubuntu you have to trigger the module recompile manually by calling a script. Hopefully somebody more familiar with Ubuntu can comment. For Fedora, you should use the open-vm-tools RPMs from the RPMFusion repository. These use kmods for kernel modules, so new kmod RPMs are made available for each kernel updates. -denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
