On 12/16/2011 01:36 PM, Natanael Copa wrote:
> I was actully thinking of the getloadavg since my current patch for
> that no longer applied. Looking at the changelog and diffing the
> source (any public git/svn/mercural?) there was added yet another
> bunnch if #ifdefs
The public git repositor
Hi Natanael,
On 12/15/2011 05:29 AM, Natanael Copa wrote:
> I'm looking at the issue with building on Alpine Linux (uclibc):
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3459926&group_id=204462&atid=989708
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and from
> configure s
On 12/12/2011 11:31 PM, Ben Stover wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/open-vm-tools/stable-8.8.x/
>
> then there is only ONE package. I found no variants for different platforms
> like
> Ubuntu, Solaris, RedHat Windows7,
The open-vm-tools project only provides sourc
On 12/12/2011 11:11 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
> Working with the 2011.04.25 source bundle, I have a working
> open-vm-tools for UnXis OpenServer 6.0.0. I thought
> I had all the VM power control scripts functioning when doing
> the port using vCenter 4.0 and ESX 4.0 hosts. Retesting after
> upgrading
Hi Ben,
On 12/10/2011 11:24 PM, Ben Stover wrote:
> Does OpenVmTools v2011.11.20 support Solaris 11 ?
> If yes: Is it stable?
o-v-t should compile on Solaris 11. I've been testing compiling the package on
an older OpenSolaris release (2009.06), but things should work the same on the
official Sola
On 12/07/2011 04:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Patch #2 (open-vm-tools-vsync.patch): + /bin/cat
> /home/builduser/rpmbuild/SOURCES/open-vm-tools-vsync.patch + /usr/bin/patch
> -s -p1 --fuzz=0
Perhaps you should use -p0 instead? I don't know, I don't have your rpmbuild
setup here so I can't suggest
On 12/07/2011 03:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Dec 07 23:05:17.551: vcpu-0| Guest: [ debug] [vmsvc:vmsvc] SyncDriver:
> ioctl failed: 16 (Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt)
Hmmm... Dmitry just showed me the new kernel sources and this interface seems
to have changed since I first looked at
Hi Reindl,
On 12/07/2011 07:26 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> [logging] log = true vmbackup.level = debug vmbackup.handler = vmx
>> vmvss.level = debug vmvss.handler = vmx
Sorry but I'll have to ask you to change the log config again, since the
config above unfortunately doesn't enable logging for
Hey Reindl,
On 12/06/2011 03:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> [root@buildserver:~]$ cat /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf [logging] log =
> true log.file = /var/log/vmtools.log
>
> [vmbackup] vmbackup.level = debug vmbackup.handler = vmx vmvss.level =
> debug vmvss.handler = vmx vss.log = true
Look at D
On 11/24/2011 03:09 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> why not patching the sources?
That's a side-effect of how VMware adds support for newer distros. Right now I
don't believe brand new distros (or recent distros that have had kernel
updates) are officially supported by the current released products; th
s not a performance issue at
> the host level since the centos 5 guests still run extremely fast.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I forwarded your message to the internal team that owns pvscsi. I
Hi Reindl,
I have an update to 8.8.x open-vm-tools that should provide a fix for that;
but it will probably need adjustments since Fedora is messing with the kernel
version numbers.
I'm planning to post the update later today.
On 11/23/2011 06:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> hi
>
> currently ther
Hi David,
I forwarded your message to the internal team that owns pvscsi. I'll re-post any
replies they send to the list.
On 11/10/2011 01:52 PM, David H wrote:
> Hi all, hope this reaches someone who might know the more intimate
> details of the pvscsi driver's development. I've been running
>
Hi Chip,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
On 08/31/2011 07:31 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> Debian unstable has just updated its open-vm-tools packaging, which is
> great; but neither clipboard coordination nor Linux guest X window
> resizing works any more. WRT the latter, it's resizing the ho
Hi Joakim,
On 08/10/2011 11:21 PM, Joakim Reck wrote:
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
So, do you actually have a question? The error below seems clear to me: you
don't have the FreeBSD kernel sources
Hi Mike,
Thanks for reporting the issue and providing the patch. In general we can't
accept patches unless you send us a contribution agreement (see
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php), but I'll let the people
responsible for vmxnet3 know about the issue.
On 08/10/2011 03:55 AM,
Hi John,
On 07/29/2011 01:29 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
> What I would really like to accomplish is a more thorough round of testing.
> I have built the Cunit open source package required to build the tests
> directory, which yields several *.so files, but I am not certain how to
> utilize this shared
Hi John,
On 07/26/2011 08:43 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
> Our OSR6 efforts are starting with generation of the VM on
> ESX 4.0 which offers guest OS types for "SCO OpenServer 5" and
> "SCO UnixWare 7", but nothing for OpenServer 6.
The identifier provided by the guest os is, mostly, used for the UI on
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
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
Hi John,
The word I got is that if the VM is doing any I/O (disk or network), then HA
will not reset it. So just the Tools heartbeat going red is not enough for HA to
kick in.
Hope this helps,
On 07/18/2011 10:30 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
> That suggests that there is some criteria beyond "loss of h
Hi John,
Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with our HA feature. I've forwarded your
e-mail internally to the appropriate team, let's see if they have any
information to share.
On 07/18/2011 10:30 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
> That suggests that there is some criteria beyond "loss of heartbeat"
> nece
Hi John,
On 07/14/2011 03:36 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
> lib/rpcIn/rpcin.c & rpcin.h have 2 forms of the functions:
>
>RpcIn_Construct()
>RpcIn_Start()
>
> with a different number of parameters and parameter type. The
> selection is controlled by the define VMTOOLS_USE_GLIB.
> lib/rpcIn co
On 07/01/2011 01:53 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
> 1. Is it a bug that configure did not check for the presence
>of glibmm, gtkmm and sigc++ ?
Probably. Most probably the dependency was added some time after configure.ac
was written in its current form, and never reflected in the configure script.
>
Hi John,
On 06/16/2011 01:31 PM, John Masinter wrote:
> SUMMARY: Is there any tool or release that aids in integrating Open VM Tools
> modules directly into my Linux kernel src tree?
I have never tries this script for this purpose, but open-vm-tools ships with
modules/linux/dkms.sh, which creates
Hi John,
On 05/31/2011 12:07 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
> While the:
>
> - date of the tar file
> - dates on the files in that bundle (strangely all June 1, 2010)
> - the build number in the tar file name
>
> open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024.tar.gz
>
> suggest that the source release conta
Hi Mark,
You're probably not going to have much luck getting help with open-vm-tools from
VMware's tech support. That being said, I have no idea what they mean by
open-vm-tools not logging properly on ESXi.
On 05/02/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
> We're having issues with FreeBSD on our VMWar
On 04/29/2011 02:39 AM, Christophe Lindheimer wrote:
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:24:35 UTC 2011
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> chris@ubuntu:~/open-vm-tools-2011.03.28-387002$ ./configure --without-dnet
> --> OK
> chris@ubuntu:~/open-vm-tools-2011.03.28-387002$ make --> OK
Hi Stephen,
I sent your e-mail to the appropriate team inside VMware and they'll take care
of it. Thanks!
On 03/31/2011 09:18 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The vmxnet driver always requests irq with name of 'vmxnet' which
> is incorrect. It causes multiple entries in /proc/interrupts and confuse
On 03/31/2011 11:25 AM, Christophe Lindheimer wrote:
> I sent 2 mails.
> The first with the core
> The second with the binary.
Sorry, didn't notice the core in the original mail. Anyway, without all the
libraries from your system it's hard for me to get a useful backtrace; this is
what I see here:
Hi Christophe,
On 03/31/2011 05:29 AM, Christophe Lindheimer wrote:
> Just tested.
> Both issues are corretcted :) Good job !
>
> Last question, I have a crash in vmtoolsd.
>
> There is a script /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd that starts /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -->
> segfault at 60 ip b68e3696 sp ... in libgdk
Hi Christophe,
The new release I just uploaded (2011.03.28) should have a fix for this issue.
On 03/23/2011 07:09 AM, Christophe Lindheimer wrote:
> ex2:
> -
> When I try to compile & link a cpp file on the shared folder, I have an
> error (command was gcc Free.cpp)
> /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-l
On 02/13/2011 01:40 PM, Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle wrote:
> In ghIntegrationInt.h:Bool GHIPlatformIsSupported(void);
>
> a string comparison is made with a null pointer when not running in a
> supported desktop environment (In this case, xmonad)
>
> vmware-xdg-detect-de prints nothing
Thanks for th
On 02/12/2011 08:40 AM, Jim wrote:
> I loaded the missing libraries and was able to get cloning working.
> Am I correct in my thinking that if I don't include the /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
> file then guest user authentication cannot take place which effectively
> blocks unintended guest user operation t
On 02/10/2011 12:18 AM, James Ko wrote:
>
> I have a restricted shell which limits the user from the underlying linux
> apps and filesystem
> but authorization is using the usual mechanisms. VIX would allow access to
> the underlying
> filesystem bypassing the restricted shell.
>
> As for the
On 02/09/2011 11:24 AM, James Ko wrote:
> Is VIX really required for quiescing? I would actually prefer to have VIX
> disabled as I see it as a potential
> security risk for the guest.
VIX is needed for quiescing on Linux, yes; that's how the freeze / thaw scripts
are executed. There are a few
On 02/08/2011 11:33 AM, Jim wrote:
> I am using open-vm-tools 8.4.2 stable release but my linux other 2.6.x guest
> will not clone due to failure of a reported pre-freeze script returning
> non zero.
> Similar error to report in Tracker-3107225.
First, a disclaimer: the 8.4.2 release is a stable r
On 12/20/2010 03:58 AM, Sandesh wrote:
> I want to compile the *open-vm-tools* on my Redhat workstation where I have
> quite older packages such as glib-config-1.2.10. I want to download the
> older version of open-vm-tools which would be supported by my older
> toolchain. Could you please let me k
On 09/08/2010 03:07 PM, Bill Rees wrote:
> Is there a description of how vmtools power control works? For instance, how
> does the power button signal trigger the poweroff-vm-default script?
There isn't a formal spec that I know of, but from the tools side, all action
regarding power scripts happ
Hi James,
On 06/24/2010 07:22 PM, James wrote:
> Of course I also see that I can just add custom user scripts to
> the /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/poweroff-vm-default.d/ directory
> and that is just what I'm doing now. The problem of course is that
> if my script does the power off at the end the r
Hi James,
On 06/08/2010 11:38 AM, James wrote:
> What are the features I get by enabling procps and libdnet support?
> What would I be missing if I do not have them?
>
> I have added procps and libdnet to my build but I don't see any
> difference in my vSphere client.
libdnet is used to collect i
Hi James,
On 05/22/2010 07:17 PM, James wrote:
> After installing and starting it I get a number of warnings
> about /etc/redhat-release, /etc/redhat-version etc type files not found.
> There were different ones for various distributions but I have
> a 2.6.23 kernel from scratch.
> Google couldn't
Hi James,
On 05/19/2010 02:41 PM, James wrote:
> I am trying to cross compile the open vmware tools package
> and have it added to the target directory tree. The linux target will
> not have gcc and other build tools available. The target will
> also be console only with no X features.
>
> I am
Hi Dean,
On 05/06/2010 10:30 AM, Dean Hildebrand wrote:
>> For disk space, quiesced snapshots don't include memory information, so
> you
>> don't pay the largest cost of snapshots (the memory state file). The
>> delta disks
>> created are not large.
>
> I guess that is true as long as you quickl
Hi Dean,
On 05/05/2010 03:11 PM, Dean Hildebrand wrote:
> Right now, in order to quiesce the Guest OS file systems it is required to
> take a VM snapshot. We would like to avoid taking this snapshot for
> several reasons, most importantly disk space and performance.
Are those the only things
On 01/20/2010 04:47 AM, Michael Weiser wrote:
> When executing vmtoolsd with the --log option I get the message
>
> [ warning] [Gtk] cannot open display:
That's definitely not expected. vmtoolsd nor its dependent libraries need X. It
might be a problem with Debian's packaging. To be sure, I'd nee
Ofer Porat wrote:
> Is it possible for a guest-side kernel module to read custom configuration
> settings for itself from the VMX file on the host --- using for example the
> RPC or TCLO backdoor protocols ?
You're only allowed to read config variables in the "guestinfo.*" namespace.
Everything
Ben Tomasini wrote:
> I have installed open vm tools on Ubunti 9.10 using apt-get.
I see two completely different things on all the info you've posted, and none
are related to open-vm-tools.
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/lib/modul
This is just a heads up for some small changes in the open-vm-tools release
process starting with the next release.
If you use the tar files released on the SourceForge "download" section, then
things will still look exactly the same to you. If by any chance you're using
git to get to the code, th
eXeC001er wrote:
> I need next modules:
> vmmemctl, vmware-userd, ... but it not found after make. why?
vmmemctl should be under modules/solaris/vmmemctl/[i386/amd64]. User-level
binaries shouldn't be copied off of the build directory directly - you need to
run "make install" to get them. You can
eXeC001er wrote:
> Make previos version is ok! (./configure --without-x --disable-multimon
> --without-icu --without-gtkmm) I don't need X.
This is what I use on opensolaris 2009.06:
./configure --disable-unity --without-dnet --without-icu --without-gtkmm
--without-x
(I just remove the last s
eXeC001er wrote:
> I disable ICU: --without-icu. but the error has not disappeared.
> I bulid with gcc and with sun-gcc. no result.
> I installed OS 2009.06. no result.
Did you start from a clean tree (make distclean)? There might be some wrong
dependency somewhere as someone suggested.
I compile
eXeC001er wrote:
> I tried to build previos release open-vm-tool, but i get new error: (with
> --disable-icu or without --disable-icu)
You want "--without-icu". You can find other options by running "configure
--help".
I haven't had time to look at why open-vm-tools don't like the ICU version
s
polloxx wrote:
> I've compiled open-vm-tools-2009.07.22-179896 on a Debian 5.0.2
> (Lenny) running kernel 2.6.26-2 as a ESX 3.5.0 VM and loaded the compiled
> modules.
> However the ESX server shows still VMware tools "not installed" for the VM.
> How can I solve this?
I seem to remember a bug in
Chris Ridd wrote:
> As the vmware tools supplied with VMware Fusion don't install in
> OpenSolaris (build 118) due to not expecting Xorg 7.5, I thought I'd
> try building them myself...
>
> The main problem is that building copyPaste.cc fails, and it isn't
> clear to me where the fault is:
Hi Ken,
Almost lost your message in my spam folder. :-) I recommend subscribing to the
mailing list when sending messages, there's a lot of spam that would get through
if we open it up again...
> Kenny Murphy
> I have been reading over the open vmware tools source. I'm specifically
> interested
Hi Florian,
Florian Fuessl wrote:
> That's the respond every 30s:
> Jul 12 17:11:46.627: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sending request='SetGuestInfo 4
> build-130226'
> Jul 12 17:11:46.629: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sent request='SetGuestInfo 4
> build-130226', reply='Invalid guest information type.', len=31, status=0
>
Hi Florian,
Florian Fuessl wrote:
> running open-vm-tools 2008.11.18-130226 on Debian Lenny within ESX 2.5.4
> build-119703 produces the following error msgs about every 30s in the
> vmware.log files of the virtual machines:
First, a disclaimer: the version of ESX you're running is really old (ev
Hi Eric,
Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> So I did a second installation, and now drag and drop does not work at
> all any more.
It's been a long time since I played with vmblock (and Dmitry, who has worked
with it recently, is OOTO this week), so I can't help much. But just to make
sure, is the vmblock
Hi Ashok,
Ashok Sudarsanam wrote:
> Given that there is no way to invoke the vmsync driver from a snapshot
> request, I was wondering whether there is any other way to invoke this driver
> on a Linux VM? For instance, the open-vm-tools web-site says this about
> vmsync: "It is used by the "vmbac
Hi Ashok,
Ashok Sudarsanam wrote:
> VMware tech support told me that for Linux virtual machines, they do not
> support the quiescing of the guest filesystem, hence they do not include the
> vmsync module as part of the VMware tools. However, since open-vm-tools
> includes the vmsync driver, I tho
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> pvscsi: Unknown parameter `vmblock'
This one beats me... I didn't see anything suspicious in your script. Can you
"grep -r vmblock" in pvscsi's dkms source dir?
> vmhgfs: Unknown symbol Backdoor_InOut
> vmhgfs: Unknown symbol BackdoorHbIn
> vmhgfs: Unknown symbol Backdoor
Hi Olivier,
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> Then I had to patch docs/api/Makefile.am to add the -e
> 's,##{PROJECT_NAME}##,@PACKAGE_STRING@,' line and then I had to fix
> lib/wiper/wiperPosix.c to handle fgets return.
Thanks for pointing out the PROJECT_NAME thing, I'll fix that. Dominique also
pointe
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Just one question:
> Is there already a patch for the open-vm-tools (2009.05.22) for Kernel 2.6.30
> available?
Did you try with any other kernel (just to make sure this is really something
caused by changes in 2.6.30)?
> for now I see it failing w
Hi Olivier,
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> Trying to minimize the number of includes to put in the dkms build tree I'm
> trying to create, I've found that there are 2 hgfs.h , 2 block.h and 2
> stubs.h
> includes that are identical except for the top comment (tipicaly the
> license).
> Is it normal?
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:11:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>> Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I
>> have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and
>> over).
>>
>
> The lists are open for posting to everyo
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Thank you very much. So it must be vmware-toolbox which shows something
> wrong. when first started up, it shows all the scripts as not being used
Yes, that is one of the bugs that were already fixed internally and will be out
in the next update.
> /
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools
> (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume). This is all nice and handy, but by
> default those scripts are not used, as long as there is no tools.conf
> existing in /etc/vmware-to
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> what I tried: starting "vmtoolsd vmusr" seams not to daemonize at all (might
> be intentional... typically it's started from a .desktop file anyhow). I
> think vmtoolsd vmusr is not yet ready, right?
To daemonize vmtoolsd, you need to provide the "--ba
Josh Rickmar wrote:
> OK, thanks for the help. This solved that problem, but now I am getting
> another compile issue Here's the output:
Finally got some time to create a 7.1 VM. I wasn't able to reproduce the
problem
(although I'm not using gmake). We should be putting out a new refresh of th
Josh Rickmar wrote:
> Sorry, but I don't have any experience with automake and autoconf. I
> applied the patch, but when running autoconf, I get an error saying that
> my version is wrong. I am using autoconf 2.62, but it says that it won't
> work because it was made with version 2.61. I checked
Josh Rickmar wrote:
> % pkg_which /usr/local/include/unicode.h
> libunicode-0.4_9
Could you try this patch? It seems to work for me. (You'll probably need
autoconf / automake / etc to rebuild the makefiles...)
--- configure.ac
+++ configure.ac 09-02-05 16:35:53
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@
INCLUDE_DI
Josh Rickmar wrote:
> I have /usr/local/include/unicode.h
Hmmm, that kinda sucks. I'm actually surprised compilation didn't break before
that file. Can you figure out which package added that file?
I'll look at the configure script and see if I can find a simple solution to
the
problem.
--
-
Hi Josh,
Josh Rickmar wrote:
> I just downloaded the latest release from SourceForge, and it is currently
> failing to build on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. Any help?
I don't have a 7.1 VM ready, but I tried on 7.0 and it is building fine. Could
you send us your configure line and your gcc version?
--
Hi Sergey,
Sergey Grechin wrote:
> The question is - where are backdoor interface specs published? Are
> they open? I mean how VMWare let us know
> how we have to communicate with virtualware?
There are no published specs - since implementing the backend of a backdoor
call
requires modification
Hi Zach,
Zachary Drew wrote:
> I'm trying to build open-vm-tools from git on Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm getting
> stuck at the autotools step. Could someone post a brief 'how to build
> starting from git' guide to the wiki? I tried following Adar Dembo's
> suggestion from his 2008.10.13 tar ball announce
Hi Denis,
Denis Leroy wrote:
> There are a number of copies of COPYING containing the LGPLv2+ (i.e. "or
> any later version"), while the source code mentions LGPLv2 (i.e. "no
> later version")...
Could you clarify a little bit more what's your concern?
I took a look at the LGPL text, and the lic
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