Re: vmsync module not being triggered when taking snapshot

2009-06-09 Thread Ashok Sudarsanam
Marcelo Is there any way to invoke the vmsync driver on a Linux VM? For instance, the open-vm-tools web-site says this about vmsync: "It is used by the "vmbackup" vmtoolsd plugin, so ideally it should be loaded prior to starting that service, although it is not required." Is this still accurate,

Re: vmsync module not being triggered when taking snapshot

2009-06-09 Thread Ashok Sudarsanam
Hi Marcelo Thanks very much for the clarification. Ashok On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > 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 no

Re: vmsync module not being triggered when taking snapshot

2009-06-09 Thread Marcelo Vanzin
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

vmsync module not being triggered when taking snapshot

2009-06-09 Thread Ashok Sudarsanam
Hi I am trying to create filesystem-consistent snapshots on an Ubuntu-8.10 Linux virtual machine running open-vm-tools. Instead of installing VMware-tools on this virtual machine, I installed the open-vm-tools package using the instructions documented in the following web-site: http://www.gorilla

vmsync module not being triggered when taking snapshot

2009-06-09 Thread Ashok Sudarsanam
Hi I am trying to create filesystem-consistent snapshots on an Ubuntu-8.10 Linux virtual machine running open-vm-tools. Instead of installing VMware-tools on this virtual machine, I installed the open-vm-tools package using the instructions documented in the following web-site: http://www.gorilla