Hi Thiago, On Monday, May 30, 2011 02:31:34 PM Thiago Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > > This may be a recurrent question, but I couldn't find all the answers I > seek on the list archive. I'd be glad if you people help me. > > My company provides a custom Linux appliance running kernel 2.6.32. We > want to support virtual machine installations on the various > distributions of VMWare (eg Player, Server, Workstation, ESXi). For > better performance, vmtools is a must and to achieve the higher number > of distributions possible, we opted for building open-vm-tools on our > custom kernel and distributing it along with our system. > > Everything went fine: several modules loaded on kernel and daemon > vmtoolsd up and running. The message indicating the absence of the tools > has disappeared from VM Server and Workstation e the VM tools status > changed to "unmanaged" on ESXi. But the reboot/shutdown features on > vSphere are not working.
You need to make sure that suspend/poweroff scripts exist and can be executed without errors. Try enabling tools logging and see why powerOps errors out. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
