[gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo as ESXi guest: how to install vmware-tools/open-vm-tools?
Hi, this might be a little off-topic, but maybe someone here is running Gentoo on top of VMware/ESXi and could help me. I'm trying to install gentoo-server as vmware esxi guest, but I'm stuck with vmware-tools/open-vm-tools. First I tried vmware-tools. Installation went smoot, but nothing happened. Just one iso-image got installed in /opt. No doc/readme/txt, nothing. What should I do with it? Then I tried open-vm-tools thinking it might be better. But installation of open-vm-tools-kmod failed with message: CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX: is not set when it should be I'm not sure what this option is good for (searched kernel config with grep and did not find it at all), but I think it has something to do with graphics, which I do not want to use on server. Unfortunatelly, open-vm-tools-kmod does not have any use-flags so I can not turn 3d off and I am stuck again. All I expect from vmware/open-vm-tools is ability for clean shutdown of gentoo-guest in similar way as I can do it with windows-guest. How can I achieve this? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo as ESXi guest: how to install vmware-tools/open-vm-tools?
Jarry schrieb: First I tried vmware-tools. Installation went smoot, but nothing happened. Just one iso-image got installed in /opt. No doc/readme/txt, nothing. What should I do with it? mount -o loop the iso-image somewhere and execute the install script there. -Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo as ESXi guest: how to install vmware-tools/open-vm-tools?
All I expect from vmware/open-vm-tools is ability for clean shutdown of gentoo-guest in similar way as I can do it with windows-guest. How can I achieve this? You mean shut the guest down via ESXi management console? If you, try installing acpid inside the guest and add it to the default runlevel.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo as ESXi guest: how to install vmware-tools/open-vm-tools?
On 02-Nov-12 19:50, Michael Hampicke wrote: All I expect from vmware/open-vm-tools is ability for clean shutdown of gentoo-guest in similar way as I can do it with windows-guest. How can I achieve this? You mean shut the guest down via ESXi management console? If you, try installing acpid inside the guest and add it to the default runlevel. I have it running and created /etc/acpi/event/power : event=button/power.* action=/sbin/shutdown -h now But I do not know how to trigger short power-button press. In vSphere-Client shutdown guest is still grey, and when I click on Power-PowerOff, it is just powered off, without shutdown (as if power-button was pressed for long time). I suppose vmware-tools are needed for this... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
