Re: Should open-vm-tools appear as a running (possibly unmanaged) in the VMware Tools status of vSphere Client?

2011-07-21 Thread Marcelo Vanzin
Hi John, On 07/21/2011 03:01 PM, John Wolfe wrote: > Is the "bug" in vSphere 4.x flaky enough for the tools status > to occasionally be reported as "unmanaged" for unsupported guests? The flakiness of the status does look weird; but looking at the fix for the bug, it does seem like it would prope

Re: Should open-vm-tools appear as a running (possibly unmanaged) in the VMware Tools status of vSphere Client?

2011-07-21 Thread John Wolfe
Marcelo, Petr, Is the "bug" in vSphere 4.x flaky enough for the tools status to occasionally be reported as "unmanaged" for unsupported guests? - yesterday my OSR6 VM was "Unmanaged" for several reboots and restarts of the vmtoolsd - today, following a power-hit to our Intel Modular Se

Re: Should open-vm-tools appear as a running (possibly unmanaged) in the VMware Tools status of vSphere Client?

2011-07-21 Thread Marcelo Vanzin
Hi John, On 07/21/2011 01:32 PM, John Wolfe wrote: > Jul 21 14:24:12.732: vcpu-1| VMXVmdb_SetToolsVersionState: status value set to > 'notAvailable' I'm pretty sure this is a bug in VMware's host code, so there's nothing you can do from the Tools side. Someone else reported a similar issue here b

Should open-vm-tools appear as a running (possibly unmanaged) in the VMware Tools status of vSphere Client?

2011-07-21 Thread John Wolfe
I have the basics for vmtools ported for OpenServer 6. The RPC loop is running and the hostd.log file on the ESX host reports the current heartbeat status as green. But, the vSphere Client Summary tab for the running VM indicates: "VMware Tools: Not Installed" And it has consistently been di

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3297924 ] Wrong "Guest OS" information in vSphere client displayed

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3297924, was opened at 2011-05-05 06:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3297924&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the commen

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3371547 ] patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc/buildroot

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 09:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the commen

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3297924 ] Wrong "Guest OS" information in vSphere client displayed

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3297924, was opened at 2011-05-05 06:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3297924&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the commen

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3371547 ] patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc/buildroot

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 09:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the commen

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3373006 ] open-vm-tools still fails to build with GCC 4.6 or later

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3373006, was opened at 2011-07-20 19:42 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3373006&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the commen

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3371547 ] patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc/buildroot

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 16:26 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment th

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3371547 ] patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 16:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment threa

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3371547 ] patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc

2011-07-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 16:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3371547&group_id=204462 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment threa