On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:58, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Hello, list! >>> >>> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, >>> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: >>> >>> * vmware-tools >>> >>> * open-vm-tools >>> >>> * open-vm-tools-kmod >>> >>> What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use >>> VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? >> >> As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of >> vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both >> of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling >> reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go >> with the open-vm-tools one. > > Teach me to read more carefully... > > The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, > assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to > install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via > open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon. > > Device Drivers --> > [*] Misc devices ---> > <M> VMware Balloon Driver > SCSI device support ---> > [*] SCSI low-level drivers ---> > <*> VMware PVSCSI driver support > [*] Network device support > <M> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver > > (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory > management between host & guest). > > --Mike
d`oh~~ ... count me in among those who can't read properly >.< So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, too? Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
