On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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).
So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, too?
Yes. And you'll need to add a few of those drivers to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or /etc/conf.d/modules (whichever you have). Mine currently loads:
vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync
