Hi Kelly, On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 01:16:21 PM kelly price wrote: > Hey there, > > I work for a company that produces appliances using a custom linux > platform. I'm trying to compile and setup open-vm-tools for these, and > running into problems. My question right now is, What version of > open-vm-tools should I use to compile against 2.6.36.2? Also, what version > of glib should I use? > > Currently, I'm trying: > open-vm-tools-8.4.2
8.4.2 is somewhat old, I'd recommend 8.6.x or 8.8.x line. Since you mentioned virtual appliance 8.6.x is probably the best. > glib-2.16 2.16 should work. I believe our configure script checks for 2.14 or later. > > Later versions of glib were giving me problems. I was able to get > open-vm-tools-8.4.2 to compile with glib-2.12 and some nasty patching to > open-vm-tools. I was unable to get vmxnet to recognize eth0 and figured I > ought to try compiling it without changees to code I don't understand. Are you sure you need vmxnet? It is a very old driver that is deprecated. Newer VMs should either use e1000 device or vmxnet3. Both drivers are part of the standard Linux kernel you can download from kernel.org (along with pvscsi and vmw_balloon drivers that you also might want to enable). Hope this helps, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
