Re: vmtoolsd requiring running X server

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello Marcelo, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:43:03AM -0800, Marcelo Vanzin 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 prob

Re: vmtoolsd requiring running X server

2010-01-20 Thread Marcelo Vanzin
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

Re: vmtoolsd requiring running X server

2010-01-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Eric, On Wednesday 20 January 2010 05:37:06 am Eric Shubert wrote: > > This brings up a concern of mine that I hope to address soon. I run > several virtual servers, and would like some of the vmtools > functionality, namely timekeeping and the vmxnet device driver. Needless > to say, there is

Re: vmtoolsd requiring running X server

2010-01-20 Thread Eric Shubert
Michael Weiser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm facing a somewhat peculiar problem with open-vm-tools 2009.12.16 on > a minimalistic, current Debian testing. This same VM I use on hosts with > VMware Fusion 2.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and VMware Workstation 6.5.1 on > SuSE 10.1 and 11.1. It behaves the same e

vmtoolsd requiring running X server

2010-01-20 Thread Michael Weiser
Hello, I'm facing a somewhat peculiar problem with open-vm-tools 2009.12.16 on a minimalistic, current Debian testing. This same VM I use on hosts with VMware Fusion 2.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and VMware Workstation 6.5.1 on SuSE 10.1 and 11.1. It behaves the same everywhere. Upon suspend of the VM