What does the kmod RPM's do?
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:36 +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 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
>
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