[CentOS] vmware tools do not start on EL6 / upstart init

[Leon Fauster via CentOS]

Hi all,

I got two CentOS6 guest vms handed over that run under VMware ESX.

After installing the missing last updates and reboots I noticed that
the vmware-tools got not started while booting 
(/etc/init/vmware-tools.conf), while manually starting works 
(/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start). Does someone has the same 
behaviour. Any

ideas about the cause?

Thanks,
Leon


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Re: [CentOS] VMWare Workstation 14 on CentOS7

[wwp]

Hello Phil,


On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:21:37 +0100 Phil Wyett  wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 07:37 +0200, wwp wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > 
> > I'm encountering blocking issues with VMWare Workstation v14/v12 on
> > CentOS 7.
> > 
> > The issue is that any Linux guestsystem will get network-disconnected
> > after a short while. I tried w/ brand new guest installs, guests coming
> > from a v12 WS. Tried different guest network settings, I always get
> > disconnected. I found several cases like this on the Web, but couldn't
> > see any working solution yet.
> > 
> > My CentOS7 runs 4.9.75-204.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel.
> > 
> > On my previous CentOS 6, still alive, v12 works like a charm.
> > 
> > Does anyone have experience with this?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is the issue the same when running the stock 7 kernel?

No way to boot this hardware with 3.10 kernels, I'm afraid, this was my
first struggle with it (Dell XPS-15 9560). At first with this
configuration, I was running WS v12, which was showing the issue
(periodic network disconnection). Upgraded to WS v14, was not
installing at all at the beginning, since few updates it installs but
the issue is there again.


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Re: [CentOS] VMWare Workstation 14 on CentOS7

[Phil Wyett]

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On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 07:37 +0200, wwp wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> 
> I'm encountering blocking issues with VMWare Workstation v14/v12 on
> CentOS 7.
> 
> The issue is that any Linux guestsystem will get network-disconnected
> after a short while. I tried w/ brand new guest installs, guests coming
> from a v12 WS. Tried different guest network settings, I always get
> disconnected. I found several cases like this on the Web, but couldn't
> see any working solution yet.
> 
> My CentOS7 runs 4.9.75-204.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel.
> 
> On my previous CentOS 6, still alive, v12 works like a charm.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 

Hi,

Is the issue the same when running the stock 7 kernel?

Regards

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[CentOS] VMWare Workstation 14 on CentOS7

[wwp]

Hello there,


I'm encountering blocking issues with VMWare Workstation v14/v12 on
CentOS 7.

The issue is that any Linux guestsystem will get network-disconnected
after a short while. I tried w/ brand new guest installs, guests coming
from a v12 WS. Tried different guest network settings, I always get
disconnected. I found several cases like this on the Web, but couldn't
see any working solution yet.

My CentOS7 runs 4.9.75-204.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel.

On my previous CentOS 6, still alive, v12 works like a charm.

Does anyone have experience with this?


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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Andrew Holway]

Packer FTW

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018, Jerry Geis  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
>
> As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX
> should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the
> trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import
> that - Apparently still Wrong...  I cannot for the life of me understand
> how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another
> story.
>
> I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my
> other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any
> VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.
>
> How is that accomplished ?
> Thanks for your thoughts and experience.
>
> Jerry
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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Lamar Owen]

On 04/24/2018 01:26 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:

What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
...

I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my
other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any
VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.

How is that accomplished ?
Thanks for your thoughts and experience.
While my experience with ESX is rather old at this point, as is my 
experience with Workstation, since I have converted to KVM for my 
virtualization here, I will just point out that the virtual hardware 
supported by ESX(i) and Workstation are not the same.  I don't know if 
current vSphere/ESXi is different, but it's easy enough to check, but 
older ESX only supported SCSI for the virtual hard disks; no IDE hard 
disk support in ESX, and Workstation defaults to IDE hard disks.  VMware 
Workstation and ESXi are very different products, or at least the last 
versions of each that I actively used were.  So check which ESXi version 
you're targeting, and make sure you install the guest in Workstation 
with that hardware version and with ESXi-compatible devices.


And then there is VMware Fusion for macOS

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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Sorin Srbu]

> -Original Message-
> From: CentOS <centos-boun...@centos.org> On Behalf Of Steven Tardy
> Sent: den 25 april 2018 02:26
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:27 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
> 
> 
> You are probably looking for VMware Converter which can p2v or v2v.


The converter you mention only runs on Windows, right?
Or has there been releases that now works with linux flavours as well?

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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Jack Bailey  wrote:
>>> What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
>>
>>
>> You are probably looking for VMware Converter which can p2v or v2v.
>>
>> IMO: if you are creating a VM image which is a binary blob or image then
>> you are doing it wrong. Have the VM/server/desktop be a simple
>> next/next/next install and the incorporate a config management tool
>> (puppet/ansible/etc) to make it the way you like it. VM-as-code if you
>> will. This results in a reproducible thing instead of an unmanageable
>> thing.
>
>
> I'm doing this sort of thing, and frankly, VMware Converter would be my last
> choice.
>
> One project uses packer, the other, a combination of shell scripts,
> genisoimage, and Virtualbox's vboxmanage.  Both projects build a VM and
> export it to an OVA.  Example usage, these are great for creating new VMs
> from the CentOS rolling ISOs.

  Glad to know I am not the only one using packer...
>
> As for getting the OVA into vSphere's inventory, I'm using Powershell
> (Ansible's VMware support wasn't so great when I was working on the
> projects).
>
> Jack
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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Jack Bailey]

What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?


You are probably looking for VMware Converter which can p2v or v2v.

IMO: if you are creating a VM image which is a binary blob or image then
you are doing it wrong. Have the VM/server/desktop be a simple
next/next/next install and the incorporate a config management tool
(puppet/ansible/etc) to make it the way you like it. VM-as-code if you
will. This results in a reproducible thing instead of an unmanageable thing.


I'm doing this sort of thing, and frankly, VMware Converter would be my 
last choice.


One project uses packer, the other, a combination of shell scripts, 
genisoimage, and Virtualbox's vboxmanage.  Both projects build a VM and 
export it to an OVA.  Example usage, these are great for creating new 
VMs from the CentOS rolling ISOs.


As for getting the OVA into vSphere's inventory, I'm using Powershell 
(Ansible's VMware support wasn't so great when I was working on the 
projects).


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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Steven Tardy]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:27 PM Jerry Geis  wrote:

> What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?


You are probably looking for VMware Converter which can p2v or v2v.

IMO: if you are creating a VM image which is a binary blob or image then
you are doing it wrong. Have the VM/server/desktop be a simple
next/next/next install and the incorporate a config management tool
(puppet/ansible/etc) to make it the way you like it. VM-as-code if you
will. This results in a reproducible thing instead of an unmanageable thing.

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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:02:19PM +, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article 
> ,
> Jerry Geis  wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
> > 
> > As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX
> > should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the
> > trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import
> > that - Apparently still Wrong...  I cannot for the life of me understand
> > how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another
> > story.
> > 
> > I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my
> > other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any
> > VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.
> > 
> > How is that accomplished ?
> > Thanks for your thoughts and experience.
> 
> Looking at the results for 
> https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+export+a+vmware+image
> it looks like you need to export a built, working VM as an OVF.
> 
> Not sure which VMware products can do that. Possibly Workstation? The old, 
> free
> VMware server 1.0.10 that I use doesn't appear to have that feature.
> 
> You should then be able to copy the OVF file to another VMware host an import 
> it.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony

Or,if push comes to shove, you can rebuild it in VirtualBox and
do an export to OVF from there.

It might be possible to import the existing VM into VirtualBox, and
if so it MIGHT let you do an OVF export. no guarantees, I've not
tried doing that particular thing.

Good luck!

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Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Tony Mountifield]

In article ,
Jerry Geis  wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?
> 
> As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX
> should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the
> trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import
> that - Apparently still Wrong...  I cannot for the life of me understand
> how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another
> story.
> 
> I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my
> other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any
> VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.
> 
> How is that accomplished ?
> Thanks for your thoughts and experience.

Looking at the results for 
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+to+export+a+vmware+image
it looks like you need to export a built, working VM as an OVF.

Not sure which VMware products can do that. Possibly Workstation? The old, free
VMware server 1.0.10 that I use doesn't appear to have that feature.

You should then be able to copy the OVF file to another VMware host an import 
it.

Cheers
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[CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

[Jerry Geis]

Hi All,

What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?

As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX
should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the
trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import
that - Apparently still Wrong...  I cannot for the life of me understand
how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another
story.

I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my
other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any
VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.

How is that accomplished ?
Thanks for your thoughts and experience.

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[CentOS] VMWare Workstation 14 on CentOS 7?

[wwp]

Hello,


did anybody succeed in installing/updating to VMWare Workstation
14.0.0-6661328 on an updated CentOS 7 (kernel 4.9.54-203.el7.centos.x86_64)?

Here it fails at building vmmon/vmnet modules.

I couldn't find anything about this on the Internet.. WS seems to get
less popular and unfortunately reproduces the same inability to install
upon kernel updates, that drives me nut for years now. Please don't
suggest other VM sw, I'm stuck to VMWare WS at work..


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Re: [CentOS] vmware player 12.5.7 with CentOS 7.4

[Andreas Benzler]

Hello Jerry,

This message is typical. No Problem same on other linux distros.

Sincerely

Andy

> Am 14.09.2017 um 17:43 schrieb Jerry Geis :
> 
> hi all - anyone find a way to get vmware player 12.5.7 working with 7.4?
> 
> Thanks - everything good with the upgrade except that.
> 
> Great job CentOS team!
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> starting vmplayer I get the following:
> Note: adwaita is installed.
> canberra is installed
> No idea what pk is ?
> 
> vmplayer
> 
> (vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "adwaita",
> /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc:733: error: unexpected identifier
> `direction', expected character `}'
> 
> (vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "adwaita",
> /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string
> constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module":
> libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> Stopping vmware (via systemctl):   [  OK  ]
> Using kernel build system.
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
> /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64/build/include/..
> SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
>  MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/driver.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/hub.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/userif.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/procfs.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
>  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o
> In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
> from
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
> include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
> [enabled by default]
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
> ^
> In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is
> the location of the previous definition
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE0x15AD
> ^
> In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:0:
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c: In function ‘VNetNetifStartXmit’:
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:343:46: error: ‘struct
> net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’
> #define compat_netif_trans_update(d) do { (d)->trans_start = jiffies; }
> while (0)
>  ^
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:468:4: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘compat_netif_trans_update’
>compat_netif_trans_update(dev);
>^
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
> In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:52:
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: warning:
> "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined [enabled by default]
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE0x15AD
> ^
> In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
> from
> /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
> from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:51:
> include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: note: this is the location of the previous
> definition
> #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
> ^
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
> make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
> Starting vmware (via systemctl):  Job for vmware.service failed because the
> control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status
> vmware.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
>   [FAILED]
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[CentOS] vmware player 12.5.7 with CentOS 7.4

[Jerry Geis]

hi all - anyone find a way to get vmware player 12.5.7 working with 7.4?

Thanks - everything good with the upgrade except that.

Great job CentOS team!

Jerry


starting vmplayer I get the following:
Note: adwaita is installed.
canberra is installed
No idea what pk is ?

vmplayer

(vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc:733: error: unexpected identifier
`direction', expected character `}'

(vmware-modconfig:12595): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string
constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module":
libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Stopping vmware (via systemctl):   [  OK  ]
Using kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64/build/include/..
SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
  MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/userif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/procfs.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
 from
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
[enabled by default]
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
 ^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is
the location of the previous definition
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE0x15AD
 ^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:0:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c: In function ‘VNetNetifStartXmit’:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:343:46: error: ‘struct
net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’
 #define compat_netif_trans_update(d) do { (d)->trans_start = jiffies; }
while (0)
  ^
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.c:468:4: note: in expansion of macro
‘compat_netif_trans_update’
compat_netif_trans_update(dev);
^
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/netif.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:52:
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: warning:
"PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined [enabled by default]
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE0x15AD
 ^
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
 from
/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
 from /tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only/bridge.c:51:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2251:0: note: this is the location of the previous
definition
 #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
 ^
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-piDjEW/vmnet-only'
Starting vmware (via systemctl):  Job for vmware.service failed because the
control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status
vmware.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
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Re: [CentOS] Vmware No Longer Build on the New 693.1.1 kernel

[pro alias]

>Build error  "Failed to build vmnet.  Failed to execute the build
command."
>when trying to compile vmnet.Not one other shred of data in the logs
>telling me WHY it failed to build.
>I have rolled back to the last 514 kernel to use vmware but I
>don't want to recompile vmware because of the liability of not being able
to
>get it running again if the compilation problem is caused by one of the
>other updates.
>Anyone else found vmware problems after CR update??


The answer is to recompile the source tarball with a patch which appeared
at:
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2686431?tstart=0#2686431

generously provided by https://communities.vmware.com/people/dariusd .

Tried it and it works swimmingly.  Whew!
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[CentOS] Vmware No Longer Build on the New 693.1.1 kernel

[pro alias]

Build error  "Failed to build vmnet.  Failed to execute the build command."
when trying to compile vmnet.Not one other shred of data in the logs
telling me WHY it failed to build.
I have rolled back to the last 514 kernel to use vmware but I
don't want to recompile vmware because of the liability of not being able
to
get it running again if the compilation problem is caused by one of the
other updates.

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Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2 disk image and QEMU

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
 On 02/11/2015 09:39 AM, Allart Pieters wrote:
 I need to convert a VMWare Server 2 disk image to QEMU. I've read that
 QEMU supports VMWare disk formats. I just want to be sure it also
 supports the old VMWare Server 2 format. Anyone has any experience
 with/knowledge about this?

 take a look at the qemu-img convert bits - you might be best off
 converting the backing disk image to something better supported by
 qemu-kvm ( which is what I guess you mean when you say qemu ).

I don't think you need to do that.  Before Vmware ESXi 5.5 was
released, the earlier free versions imposed a 32Gb RAM limit so I used
KVM on a few larger machines.   And I was able to use existing images,
using the vmware converter tool to copy from ESXi hosts into a vmdk
file (essentially what vmware server would use).  I've since converted
back to ESXi because it seems easier to manage with less reboots for
updates so I can't check the details now, but I think I just followed
some guide I found.   Basically you have to create a new virtual
machine in KVM but tell it to use an existing disk.   I think the only
part that seemed complicated was telling the KVM tools to use
different storage locations for the image files since I wanted them
spread over several volumes.

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Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2 disk image and QEMU

[Karanbir Singh]

On 02/11/2015 09:39 AM, Allart Pieters wrote:
 I need to convert a VMWare Server 2 disk image to QEMU. I've read that
 QEMU supports VMWare disk formats. I just want to be sure it also
 supports the old VMWare Server 2 format. Anyone has any experience
 with/knowledge about this?

take a look at the qemu-img convert bits - you might be best off
converting the backing disk image to something better supported by
qemu-kvm ( which is what I guess you mean when you say qemu ).

- KB


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[CentOS] VMWare server 2 disk image and QEMU

[Allart Pieters]

I need to convert a VMWare Server 2 disk image to QEMU. I've read that 
QEMU supports VMWare disk formats. I just want to be sure it also 
supports the old VMWare Server 2 format. Anyone has any experience 
with/knowledge about this?


Tnx in advance,
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[CentOS] VMWare Workstation Guest Keep Crashing

[Igal @ getRailo.org]

hi all,

I've inherited a CentOS 6.4 machine that runs VMWare Workstation 9 which
in turn hosts a Windows SBS 2011 guest.

the problem is that the Windows guest keeps crashing, and I have no idea
why.  it was working fine for a while but recently started crashing
after a day or two of operation.

as a total Linux/CentOS noob, I have some questions:

1) is it safe to assume that since the guest crashes, but not the host,
then the issue is with the Windows setup and not the CentOS?

2) any ideas how I would go to find the problem?

3) I understand now that a better virtualization would be KVM or Xen. 
any word of advice on which is better if the host machine need only run
the guest OS and back it up?

TIA!


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Re: [CentOS] VMware-tools has 4 options only for resolution!

[Ted Miller]

On 02/17/2014 02:12 AM, Yawei Guo wrote:
 Hi Guys,

 It is surprised that VMware-tools gives 4 options only for resolutin after
 I install VMware-tools for CentOS release 5.10 (Final), a guest OS running
 with VMware player 6.0.1 build-1379776. The kernal is 2.6.18-371.4.1.el5
 x86_64 x86_64. The host system is win7 64bit OS. The hardware is Thinkpad
 T440S with a FHD display, 1920 X 1080. The following is what I get when I
 run vmware-config-tools.pl. The VMware-tools is
 VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz. I think that is the latest version.

 CODE: SELECT ALL
 https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19t=44910#Please
 choose one of the following display sizes that X will start with:

 [1]  640x480
 [2]  800x600
 [3]  1024x768
 [4] 1280x800
 Please enter a number between 1 and 4:

 [4] 4


 Obviously it does not contain the resolution I need. The information I get
 with getinfo.sh has one line VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA
 II Adapter [15ad:0405]

 VMware-tools worked well when I installed CentOS 5.5 for my virtual
 machine. What's wrong? Would you please help me? Thank you.


 Best Regards,
 Yawei

I realize this is old, but one of the purposes of installing VMWare Tools 
is so that the display can resize to match the size of the window on your 
display.  You notice that it says that X will _start_ with.  That is 
where it starts, but after it starts you are free to resize it as needed.

Does resizing not work correctly on your laptop?

Ted Miller
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[CentOS] VMware-tools has 4 options only for resolution!

[Yawei Guo]

Hi Guys,

It is surprised that VMware-tools gives 4 options only for resolutin after
I install VMware-tools for CentOS release 5.10 (Final), a guest OS running
with VMware player 6.0.1 build-1379776. The kernal is 2.6.18-371.4.1.el5
x86_64 x86_64. The host system is win7 64bit OS. The hardware is Thinkpad
T440S with a FHD display, 1920 X 1080. The following is what I get when I
run vmware-config-tools.pl. The VMware-tools is
VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz. I think that is the latest version.

CODE: SELECT ALL
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19t=44910#Please
choose one of the following display sizes that X will start with:

[1]  640x480
[2]  800x600
[3]  1024x768
[4] 1280x800
Please enter a number between 1 and 4:

[4] 4


Obviously it does not contain the resolution I need. The information I get
with getinfo.sh has one line VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA
II Adapter [15ad:0405]

VMware-tools worked well when I installed CentOS 5.5 for my virtual
machine. What's wrong? Would you please help me? Thank you.


Best Regards,
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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Hersh Parikh]

Host has 128GB RAM and its running CentOS 5.4 64 bit architect, 
Guest is 64 bit ubuntu 12.04,  
VMware Player I am using is 6.1

@Luigi- I have seen this thread and I have a Q around this. How do I know what 
hardware(e.g. 10/9/8) do I have?

Regards
Hersh



On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:16 PM, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote:
 
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1


Hersh Parikh said the following on 20/01/2014 07:17:

 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it
 does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing
 error stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of
 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug.
 
 I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but
 I am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS
 and VMware player is also for 64bit.

Check this VMware article and see if you fall within the limitations described:

Virtual machine memory limits and hardware versions (1014006)
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006



Ciao,
luigi

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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Fabrizio Di Carlo]

Hi Hersh,

to know hardware version you can use this table:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1003746

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Hersh Parikh hershparik...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Host has 128GB RAM and its running CentOS 5.4 64 bit architect,
 Guest is 64 bit ubuntu 12.04,
 VMware Player I am using is 6.1

 @Luigi- I have seen this thread and I have a Q around this. How do I know 
 what hardware(e.g. 10/9/8) do I have?

 Regards
 Hersh



 On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:16 PM, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1


 Hersh Parikh said the following on 20/01/2014 07:17:

 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it
 does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing
 error stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of
 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug.

 I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but
 I am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS
 and VMware player is also for 64bit.

 Check this VMware article and see if you fall within the limitations 
 described:

 Virtual machine memory limits and hardware versions (1014006)
 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006



 Ciao,
 luigi

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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Hersh Parikh]

Hi All,

Thanks for your comments. Finally figured out the way. Upgrading VMwaretools 
did the trick. 


Regards
Hersh



On Monday, 20 January 2014 3:07 PM, Fabrizio Di Carlo 
dicarlo.fabri...@gmail.com wrote:
 
Hi Hersh,

to know hardware version you can use this table:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1003746

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Hersh Parikh hershparik...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Host has 128GB RAM and its running CentOS 5.4 64 bit architect,
 Guest is 64 bit ubuntu 12.04,
 VMware Player I am using is 6.1

 @Luigi- I have seen this thread and I have a Q around this. How do I know 
 what hardware(e.g. 10/9/8) do I have?

 Regards
 Hersh



 On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:16 PM, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1


 Hersh Parikh said the following on 20/01/2014 07:17:

 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it
 does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing
 error stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of
 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug.

 I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but
 I am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS
 and VMware player is also for 64bit.

 Check this VMware article and see if you fall within the limitations 
 described:

 Virtual machine memory limits and hardware versions (1014006)
 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006



 Ciao,
 luigi

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[CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Hersh Parikh]

Hi,

I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it does 
not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing error 
stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of 3072 MB. 
Could not initiate memory hot plug. 

I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but I 
am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS and 
VMware player is also for 64bit. 

Regards
Hersh
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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[John R Pierce]

On 1/19/2014 10:17 PM, Hersh Parikh wrote:
 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it 
 does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing error 
 stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of 3072 MB. 
 Could not initiate memory hot plug.

 I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but I 
 am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS and 
 VMware player is also for 64bit.

I'd say, use virtualbox instead of vmware player.



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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Mihamina RKTMB]

On 01/20/2014 09:17 AM, Hersh Parikh wrote:
 Hi,

Hi,

 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine.
 However it does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It
 keeps throwing error stating- Requested memory size is greater than
 allowed maximum of 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug.

What is you host amount of memory?
What is your guest type?
What VMware version of VM are trying to create?

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Re: [CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

[Luigi Rosa]

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Hersh Parikh said the following on 20/01/2014 07:17:

 I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it
 does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB.  It keeps throwing
 error stating- Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of
 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug.
 
 I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but
 I am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS
 and VMware player is also for 64bit.

Check this VMware article and see if you fall within the limitations described:

Virtual machine memory limits and hardware versions (1014006)
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014006



Ciao,
luigi

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Re: [CentOS] VMWare Issue

[Phil Schaffner]

Rhugga Harper wrote on 05/17/2012 03:58 PM:
 I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit

Have you tried installing the current/supported CentOS-5 release 5.8?

Phil

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[CentOS] VMWare Issue

[Rhugga Harper]

Ok. I run several linux distro's via vmware on top of my windows 7 machine.
Currently have an Ubuntu 32-bit 10.4 guest for work. An Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit
for misc stuff. Also an OEL 6.2 guest running an oracle database.

I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit and I can't get the display to work
right. When it first boots, the screen is very small and almost impossible
to select the username field and log in. Once I log in if I de-select full
screen and then re-select full-screen it updates to the correct size.

I've installed vmware tools three times now. Inside the centos guess I set
my resolution to 1920x1200, which matches my windows 7 machine as well as
the resolution I run the other linux guests at. I set the monitor to
generic 1920x1200 LCD because my monitor type isn't detected. (Samsung
P2770H) Video adapter is set to vmware. (Actual device is an ATI HD 6950)

Anyone have any ideas?
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Re: [CentOS] VMWare Issue

[m . roth]

Rhugga Harper wrote:
 Ok. I run several linux distro's via vmware on top of my windows 7
 machine.

Ew (cooties! ugh!) (That should be the other way 'round.)
snip
 I just installed CentOS 5.6 32-bit and I can't get the display to work
 right. When it first boots, the screen is very small and almost impossible
 to select the username field and log in. Once I log in if I de-select full
 screen and then re-select full-screen it updates to the correct size.

 I've installed vmware tools three times now. Inside the centos guess I set
 my resolution to 1920x1200, which matches my windows 7 machine as well as
 the resolution I run the other linux guests at. I set the monitor to
 generic 1920x1200 LCD because my monitor type isn't detected. (Samsung
 P2770H) Video adapter is set to vmware. (Actual device is an ATI HD 6950)

 Anyone have any ideas?

Is there an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? If so, either edit it, or delete it.

  mark

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Re: [CentOS] vmware player CentOS 6 2-button 3-button touch pad with pointing device Lenovo ThinkPad

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Monday 09 January 2012 23:36:53 Igor Furlan wrote:
 Is there a way to revert the 'copypaste' functionality back to the
 traditional UNIX way of doing it,
 highlight the text with left mouse/touchpad button and paste it with
 the middle mouse/touchpad button.

AFAIK, it *should* work while in CentOS. I mean, when both the select and 
paste operations are inside CentOS.

Selecting in Windows and pasting in CentOS (and vice versa) has to be done in 
the Windows-style. I am yet to see a Windows machine configured to have the 
select and copy operations merged into one, let alone paste-ing with the 
middle mouse button... ;-)

 Any hint | solution | RTFM pointer | advice is more than welcome

Maybe take a look at gpm?

man gpm
yum info gpm

HTH, :-)
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[CentOS] vmware player CentOS 6 2-button 3-button touch pad with pointing device Lenovo ThinkPad

[Igor Furlan]

Hi All,

Question:

What (how, where) I need to set (configure) to make 'middle' button on
the touch pad acting as a '__paste__' button  when I run LINUX (CentOS
6.2) as guest on MS Windows 7 Home premium ?


Details:

LENOVO T520 laptop
touch pad with 3 buttons
pointing device (red small mushroom) between GHB keys
vmware host: MS Windows 7 Home Premium edition 64-bit
vmware guest: CentoOS 6.2 64-bit
vmware player version: 4.01

As you all know, on UNIX/LINUX the copy/paste function works slightly
different than on MS Windows-ware.

When one would like to copypaste a text, he/she needs to do:

A) press left button and move the cursor to highlight the text of interest,
B) release left button and finally
C) paste the contents of buffer(clipboard)  with click on the middle button.

Unfortunately, this function does not work on CentoOS 6 as a  guest OS
running on vmware player on WIN 7.
 In order for me to do the copy/paste, I need to
A) highlight the text,
B) click on right button and select 'copy' to move the  highlighted
text into the buffer(clipboard),
C) move the cursor to the destination position,
D) click the right button again and select the 'paste' function.

In other words, 'copypaste' on CentOS 6.2 works like 'copypaste' on
MS WINDOWS-ware.

Is there a way to revert the 'copypaste' functionality back to the
traditional UNIX way of doing it,
highlight the text with left mouse/touchpad button and paste it with
the middle mouse/touchpad button.

Any hint | solution | RTFM pointer | advice is more than welcome

Thanks in advance

Igor

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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Peter Eckel]

Hi Monty, 

 I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.

Same here.

 Centos6.2 is a guest. 

Same here.

 The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.

OK, there's a difference - I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. But that 
shouldn't make a difference.

 Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was 
 working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working.

Works here. 

 Centos is fully updated to 6.2.

Same here. 

 I have tried to install the vmware  drivers from the repository (via yum),
 and yum reports I have the latest. Vmware reports I have the latest
 version of app and linux tools.

My current versions are: 

  xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6 
  xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_6412.7.0-1.el6
  xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6

VMware Tools version is: 

  VMware-Tools-8.8.1-528969

This is the version that was downloaded by Fusion after the upgrade to 4.1.1. 

 I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail.  During 
 the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have 
 drivers for x:

I get the statement that it does not install X drivers since there are drivers 
installed by the distribution, but resizing works fine, so the drivers should 
be up-to-date.
  
  Detected X server version 1.10.4
  Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
  Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.

 Anybody else come across this?  Google and vmware sites either do not 
 have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.
 
 This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run 
 updates until needed?  What is best practice in this config?

I usually install all updates provided by CentOS (the VMs I run on Fusion are 
mostly test systems). From time to time, there are kernel updates that are not 
compatible with VMware Tools, but usually a reconfiguration (with installed 
gcc/required libs/kernel headers) fixes that. It's also possible to enable 
'VMware automatic kernel modules', an experimental feature of VMware Tools, 
that should automate that process. You can enable it by re-running 
vwmware-install.pl or running /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
 
HTH, 

  Peter.


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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Monty Shinn]

On 1/4/12 7:03 AM, Peter Eckel wrote:
 snip
 My current versions are:

xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_6412.7.0-1.el6
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6

snip
 HTH,

Peter.

Peter,

Which repository did you get the above drivers from?  I have base and cr 
enabled on my box.

Thanks,

Monty
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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Joseph L. Casale]

Which repository did you get the above drivers from?  I have base and cr
enabled on my box.

http://packages.vmware.com
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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Monty Shinn]

On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
 Which repository did you get the above drivers from?  I have base and cr
 enabled on my box.
 http://packages.vmware.com
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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem SOLVED

[Monty Shinn]

On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
 Which repository did you get the above drivers from?  I have base and cr
 enabled on my box.
 http://packages.vmware.com
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I had to do a reinstall of the xorg vmware drivers via yum. vmware tools 
apparently didn't install them right, for whatever reason.

Thanks to all for the help and advice.

Monty
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Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Peter Eckel]

Hi Monty, 

 Which repository did you get the above drivers from?  I have base and cr 
 enabled on my box.

they are from @base. 

I doubt that the VMware Tools installer installs them at all. Possibly without 
a current version of the VMware tools the CentOS installation process doesn't 
recognise it runs on a VMware instance, and so the drivers don't get installed. 
Just a wild guess, though.

Cheers, 

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[CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

[Monty Shinn]

Greetings.

I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.  Centos6.2 is a guest. 
The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.

Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was 
working fine.  After 6.2, it has stopped working.

Centos is fully updated to 6.2.  I have tried to install the vmware 
drivers from the repository (via yum), and yum reports I have the 
latest.  Vmware reports I have the latest version of app and linux tools.

I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail.  During 
the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have 
drivers for x.

Anybody else come across this?  Google and vmware sites either do not 
have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.

This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run 
updates until needed?  What is best practice in this config?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Monty
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[CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

[Brian McKerr]

Has anyone else seen this on Centos 6.x  x64?

Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with '
vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things. Once
completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig --list'. A reboot
of the box leaves vmware tools not running.

I have tried completely uninstalling tools and re-installing, not
difference.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

[John Doe]

From: Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com

 Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with '
 vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things. Once
 completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig 
 --list'. A reboot
 of the box leaves vmware tools not running.

Did you check that the init script is really not there?
  ll /etc/init.d/vmware-tools
If it is there, you just need to run:
  chkconfig --add vmware-tools
  chkconfig vmware-tools on

JD
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

[Brian McKerr]

Hi,

nothing in there I had checked.

Cheers.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com

  Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with
 '
  vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things.
 Once
  completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig
  --list'. A reboot
  of the box leaves vmware tools not running.

 Did you check that the init script is really not there?
   ll /etc/init.d/vmware-tools
 If it is there, you just need to run:
   chkconfig --add vmware-tools
   chkconfig vmware-tools on

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

[Joseph L. Casale]

Hi,

nothing in there I had checked.

Cheers.

Why not make this easy, install from an rpm from their repo...
http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html

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[CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Tony Mountifield]

I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it
runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.

I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs
fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation
errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition
of struct net_device among other things.

I saw a suggestion to use open-vm-tools, but looking at the RPMs on the
Lucid site, it only talks about versions for ESX.

I could try compiling from source, but I wanted to check first whether
anyone here has succeeded in installing VMware tools on CentOS 6 for
VMware Server.

Cheers
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[carlopmart]

On 09/02/2011 07:12 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
 I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it
 runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.

 I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs
 fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation
 errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition
 of struct net_device among other things.

 I saw a suggestion to use open-vm-tools, but looking at the RPMs on the
 Lucid site, it only talks about versions for ESX.

 I could try compiling from source, but I wanted to check first whether
 anyone here has succeeded in installing VMware tools on CentOS 6 for
 VMware Server.

 Cheers
 Tony

Short response: no. You can't install vmware tools from vmware server. 
Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not 
supported for vmware anymore.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Luigi Rosa]

carlopmart said the following on 02/09/11 19:19:

 Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

Installed successfully VMware tools of VMware Workstation 7.1.4 (the same level 
as ESXi 4.1 AFIK) on CentOS 6


Ciao,
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[carlopmart]

On 09/02/2011 07:28 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
 carlopmart said the following on 02/09/11 19:19:

 Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

 Installed successfully VMware tools of VMware Workstation 7.1.4 (the same 
 level
 as ESXi 4.1 AFIK) on CentOS 6


 Ciao,
 luigi


Without doing this: 
http://blog.toracat.org/2011/05/vmware-workstation-and-rhel6-1/?? This 
method isn't supported by vmware for workstation 7.1.4 and ESXi 4. (I 
have confirmed this point with vmware, another question if method 
works). And vmware tools 7.x doesn't works under vmware server 1.x ...


Only vmware tools provided under ESXi 5 for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6 are 
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[carlopmart]

On 09/02/2011 07:33 PM, carlopmart wrote:
 On 09/02/2011 07:28 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
 carlopmart said the following on 02/09/11 19:19:

 Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

 Installed successfully VMware tools of VMware Workstation 7.1.4 (the
 same level
 as ESXi 4.1 AFIK) on CentOS 6


 Ciao,
 luigi


 Without doing this:
 http://blog.toracat.org/2011/05/vmware-workstation-and-rhel6-1/?? This
 method isn't supported by vmware for workstation 7.1.4 and ESXi 4. (I
 have confirmed this point with vmware, another question if method
 works). And vmware tools 7.x doesn't works under vmware server 1.x ...


 Only vmware tools provided under ESXi 5 for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6 are
 supported by vmware.


OOps, my fault: vmware tools 7.x works for CentOS 6.0, but not for 
RHEL/SL 6.1 ...

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Luigi Rosa]

carlopmart said the following on 02/09/11 19:44:

 OOps, my fault: vmware tools 7.x works for CentOS 6.0, but not for
 RHEL/SL 6.1 ...

works with some ceveats.

If I fire up X on a CentOS 6 VM running inside a WMware Workstation 7.1.4 64 
bit 
running on Ubuntu, sometimes the mouse status is screwed up in Ubuntu 
enviroment 
and the only solution is to restart Ubuntu.

Anyway, VMware announced that Workstation 8 will be available at the mid of 
september.



Ciao,
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article 4e611015.2030...@gmail.com,
carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 09/02/2011 07:12 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
  I have an instance of VMware server 1.0.10 hosted on CentOS 5, and it
  runs fine, with guests of CentOS 4, CentOS5 or Win2000.
 
  I have just created a new VM and installed CentOS6 on it, which also runs
  fine, except that I can't build the VMware tools on it. I get compilation
  errors when compiling the kernel modules, due to changes in the definition
  of struct net_device among other things.
 
 Short response: no. You can't install vmware tools from vmware server. 
 Only vmware tools from ESXi 5 works for CentOS/RHEL/SL 6.x ...

OK, thanks.

 And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not 
 supported for vmware anymore.

Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server
installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change
(perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the
cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual
machines unchanged?

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote:

 And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not
 supported for vmware anymore.

 Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server
 installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change
 (perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the
 cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual
 machines unchanged?


ESXi is free (unless that is changed in 5.x), you just don't get any
of the clustering and multiple server management capabilities of the
paid version.  You do have to run it directly on the host which has to
support hardware virtualization.  Most recent processors do, but check
for vmx or svm in the flags in /pro/cpuinfo.   You need a windows box
to run the console, but it doesn't have to stay connected all the
time.  And there is a free converter program to move the images (or
physical hosts) to guests under ESXi, but if you use the same machine
you'll have to copy them off somewhere first.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article CAOAgVpz7tt31-oNSEYUV24hL4bwXWjOkLiG=yashbxqnttg...@mail.gmail.com,
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote:
 
  And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not
  supported for vmware anymore.
 
  Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server
  installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change
  (perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the
  cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual
  machines unchanged?
 
 
 ESXi is free (unless that is changed in 5.x), you just don't get any
 of the clustering and multiple server management capabilities of the
 paid version.  You do have to run it directly on the host which has to
 support hardware virtualization.  Most recent processors do, but check
 for vmx or svm in the flags in /pro/cpuinfo.   You need a windows box
 to run the console, but it doesn't have to stay connected all the
 time.  And there is a free converter program to move the images (or
 physical hosts) to guests under ESXi, but if you use the same machine
 you'll have to copy them off somewhere first.

OK, thanks. That looks worth investigating. The host is an HP ML110 G5
with a dual-core Xeon 3065. It shows the vmx flag.

Cheers
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Re: [CentOS] VMware tools 1.0.10 on Centos 6?

[carlopmart]

On 09/03/2011 12:09 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
 In 
 articleCAOAgVpz7tt31-oNSEYUV24hL4bwXWjOkLiG=yashbxqnttg...@mail.gmail.com,
 Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com  wrote:
 On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tony Mountifieldt...@softins.co.uk  wrote:

 And another problem: why do you use vmware server?? It is EOL and not
 supported for vmware anymore.

 Mainly because it's a test system at home on which I've had VMware server
 installed for a couple of years already, and have had no reason to change
 (perhaps until now). It was free at the time. I haven't investigated the
 cost of ESXi. If I were to move to that, could I use my existing virtual
 machines unchanged?


 ESXi is free (unless that is changed in 5.x), you just don't get any
 of the clustering and multiple server management capabilities of the
 paid version.  You do have to run it directly on the host which has to
 support hardware virtualization.  Most recent processors do, but check
 for vmx or svm in the flags in /pro/cpuinfo.   You need a windows box
 to run the console, but it doesn't have to stay connected all the
 time.  And there is a free converter program to move the images (or
 physical hosts) to guests under ESXi, but if you use the same machine
 you'll have to copy them off somewhere first.

 OK, thanks. That looks worth investigating. The host is an HP ML110 G5
 with a dual-core Xeon 3065. It shows the vmx flag.

 Cheers
 Tony

ESXi 4 and ESXi 5 works in this system  Only one suggestion: buy a 
good smart array interface like HP ones if you can ...

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[CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Jussi Hirvi]

Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS 
mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

- Jussi

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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[carlopmart]

On 03/29/2011 10:47 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
 Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
 mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

 - Jussi


Why?? What do you want to do?? Do you need to install a CentOS virtual 
guest with a mdraid-1?? IMHO, It make no sense ...

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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvi greens...@greenspot.fi wrote:
 Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
 mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it.
(if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)
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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:47 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
 Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization

No, ESXi is an OS.

  and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare 
 before.

VMware supports NFS for VM storage.  So export your MD-RAID volume to
the ESX server.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Jussi Hirvi]

 On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvigreens...@greenspot.fi  wrote:
   Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
   mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

On 29.3.2011 11.58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
 ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it.
 (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)

I know I don't need CentOS to install ESXi. I was thinking of having 
everything (or at least the guests) on mdraid level1. Maybe hardware 
raid would be the only way to get raid.

Anyway, I now feel the pull of KVM, so for my part I don't need the 
answer anymore.

- Jussi

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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Drew]

 Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
 mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

Not if you want to run ESXi on bare metal; ESXi is an OS in it's own
right. VMware Player/Server/Workstation OTOH will run on top of mdadm
as it needs a host OS and doesn't care what it is given as a block
device.




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Re: [CentOS] VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Les Mikesell]

On 3/29/11 5:12 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvigreens...@greenspot.fi   wrote:
   Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
   mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

 On 29.3.2011 11.58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
 ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it.
 (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)

 I know I don't need CentOS to install ESXi. I was thinking of having
 everything (or at least the guests) on mdraid level1. Maybe hardware
 raid would be the only way to get raid.

Hardware raid is the easy way to go.  But, you should be able to add virtual 
disks to a guest from ESXi from 2 different physical drives, then let the guest 
run software raid over them.  The guest doesn't know the disks are virtual and 
will do about anything it could do on its own physical machine.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Ian Forde]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want 
 the 
 console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with 
 freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary.  And I have Server 1.x setups that have run 
 for 
 years with no attention or downtime.  I agree that ESXi is better, but it 
 wasn't 
 free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the 
 host 
 along with several guests.
 
 Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out 
 not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with 
 bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior 
 after 
 the same minor-rev update.

I went through this a while back both at work and at home.  At work I
converted the whole shebang from VMware Server 2.0 over to KVM.  At home
I went with ESXi.  Both were fairly painless to do, though with ESXi you
need a Windows box to manage it.  Eventually, I'll probably convert the
home machine to KVM.  Maybe.  OTOH, I like not having a boot drive
(other than the SD card) on the box.

Hmm...

(thinking aloud) Is anyone doing KVM on a box from a USB stick or SD
card?  Saves a disk, and that's what VMware is doing with ESXi...

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/24/2011 10:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 2/24/11 8:56 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote:


 snip of good information

 Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
 up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
 there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
 Unsupported hardware.

 Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
 24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.

 Agreed--I haven't really found server, however, to be all that great for
 24/7, so I assumed (and we know what happens when one assumes), that it
 was being used for testing.  For any sort of production use, ESXi 4.1 is
 quite good.
 
 Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want 
 the 
 console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with 
 freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary.  And I have Server 1.x setups that have run 
 for 
 years with no attention or downtime.  I agree that ESXi is better, but it 
 wasn't 
 free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the 
 host 
 along with several guests.
 
 Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out 
 not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with 
 bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior 
 after 
 the same minor-rev update.
 

The ABI is not for things like VMWare when they screw up their updates
... it is for custom 3rd party software that you have spent
$1,000,000.00 having developed that will stop working when the ABI changes.

In the case of VMWare, they support RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. out
of the box and they made a mistake with their RH compile.

#1 is a far bigger issue than #2.



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[CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Benjamin Franz]

On 02/24/2011 06:04 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

 Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS 5.x glibc
 update?  I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the reason
 for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't work.

Ultimately it broke because VMware was never interested in actually 
supporting VMServer 2. It had 'issues' right from the start such as some 
type of resource leak that would (still does) slowly degrade performance 
unless it was rebooted every week or two. It would stop running on a 
kernel upgrade unless you wrote a script to automatically recompile the 
necessary drivers when a kernel upgrade was detected.  After two 
sub-point releases they never addressed the glib incompatibility at all. 
Those of us who continued to use it did so by hacking around so an older 
glibc was loaded just for it. Then there was the 'the manager console 
only works with SSLv2' issue that was never addressed and known security 
problems they pretty much said 'not going to fix'. Finally they 
'redefined' their way out of their own support policy where a previous 
support level became 'you can look for any solutions on the forum'. You 
couldn't even *buy* support for it.

It has been abandonware for years. I've been migrating our systems to 
KVM for some months now.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:36:28PM -0800, David Brian Chait wrote:
 
 I think you need to download the VI3 rather than 4.1 to use 32 bit support, 
 but it does work. I have it in production on some older hardware and it has 
 not let me down yet.

I believe David is correct.  We had some old machines we were going to
use with 4.1, but they were 32 bit and so we weren't able to use them.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Les Mikesell]

On 2/25/11 4:48 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

 Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out
 not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with
 bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior 
 after
 the same minor-rev update.


 The ABI is not for things like VMWare when they screw up their updates

This was not a VMWare update.  It was a glibc update - and the breakage was 
dramatic, not just the slow memory leak someone else mentioned.

 ... it is for custom 3rd party software that you have spent
 $1,000,000.00 having developed that will stop working when the ABI changes.

Can you elaborate on that?  I thought ABI stabity was a yes or no kind of 
question.  What's different about VMWare other than RH selling a similar 
product?

 In the case of VMWare, they support RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. out
 of the box and they made a mistake with their RH compile.

It seemed really odd - because at least the next few VMWare updates didn't fix 
it and they aren't exactly new at this game.  The multi-distribution support 
mostly comes from including a bazillion libraries in the package that the 
distributions refuse to standardize enough to count on, but that doesn't 
include 
glibc...   The workaround to switch to ESXi or Server 1.x was straightforward 
enough so I don't need more advice about that, but the situation seemed like 
more than a simple mistake.  Does anyone have inside information on why it 
happened and wasn't fixed immediately by one side or the other?

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Les Mikesell]

On 2/25/11 7:33 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:36:28PM -0800, David Brian Chait wrote:

 I think you need to download the VI3 rather than 4.1 to use 32 bit support, 
 but it does work. I have it in production on some older hardware and it has 
 not let me down yet.

 I believe David is correct.  We had some old machines we were going to
 use with 4.1, but they were 32 bit and so we weren't able to use them.

There are cpus that are 64 bit (with the lm flag) but don't have hardware 
virtualization (vt).   Not sure if they can run ESXi or not, but with 
server/player they can run 32-bit guests only.  CPUs with the vt option (and in 
some cases this can be enabled/disabled in the bios) can run 64-bit guests 
under 
vmware server/player even if the host runs a 32-bit OS.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Ross Walker]

On Feb 25, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote:

 On 02/24/2011 10:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 2/24/11 8:56 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote:
 
 
 snip of good information
 
 Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
 up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
 there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
 Unsupported hardware.
 
 Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
 24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.
 
 Agreed--I haven't really found server, however, to be all that great for
 24/7, so I assumed (and we know what happens when one assumes), that it
 was being used for testing.  For any sort of production use, ESXi 4.1 is
 quite good.
 
 Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want 
 the 
 console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with 
 freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary.  And I have Server 1.x setups that have run 
 for 
 years with no attention or downtime.  I agree that ESXi is better, but it 
 wasn't 
 free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the 
 host 
 along with several guests.
 
 Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned 
 out 
 not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with 
 bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior 
 after 
 the same minor-rev update.
 
 
 The ABI is not for things like VMWare when they screw up their updates
 ... it is for custom 3rd party software that you have spent
 $1,000,000.00 having developed that will stop working when the ABI changes.
 
 In the case of VMWare, they support RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. out
 of the box and they made a mistake with their RH compile.
 
 #1 is a far bigger issue than #2.

Also, VMware could have made their module load across kernel updates without 
recompile if they had set their kernel module up to support KABI (kernel ABI) 
tracking, but they didn't.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Ross Walker]

On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 2/25/11 7:33 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:36:28PM -0800, David Brian Chait wrote:
 
 I think you need to download the VI3 rather than 4.1 to use 32 bit support, 
 but it does work. I have it in production on some older hardware and it has 
 not let me down yet.
 
 I believe David is correct.  We had some old machines we were going to
 use with 4.1, but they were 32 bit and so we weren't able to use them.
 
 There are cpus that are 64 bit (with the lm flag) but don't have hardware 
 virtualization (vt).   Not sure if they can run ESXi or not, but with 
 server/player they can run 32-bit guests only.  CPUs with the vt option (and 
 in 
 some cases this can be enabled/disabled in the bios) can run 64-bit guests 
 under 
 vmware server/player even if the host runs a 32-bit OS.

I think the support goes like this:

32-bit OS (VI3) can run 32-bit software virtualization, but not 64-bit 
virtualization without hardware virtualization support.

64-bit OS (VI4) can't run without hardware virtualization support at all.

VMware doesn't see software virtualization as performing well enough to 
continue supporting modern workloads, so it dropped it in 4.1 I believe. I 
think 4.0 might have supported 32-bit non-hardware virtualization though.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[David Sommerseth]

On 25/02/11 14:52, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 2/25/11 4:48 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
 
  Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL 
  turned out
  not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with
  bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing 
  behavior after
  the same minor-rev update.
 
 
  The ABI is not for things like VMWare when they screw up their updates
 This was not a VMWare update.  It was a glibc update - and the breakage was 
 dramatic, not just the slow memory leak someone else mentioned.

I don't know this case specifically.  But generally speaking, there are
some cases where applications are built depending on a bug in a library to
work properly.  When that bug gets fixed in the library, the application
breaks.

ABI doesn't ensure that all applications will work forever.  It only
assures that the application binary interface doesn't change.  That means
that arguments being passed through library functions does not change, that
functions does not disappear, looses or gains more arguments or that the
return type from functions doesn't change.  It does not guarantee that the
behaviour of the functions doesn't change, if the behaviour was wrong to
start with.


kind regards,

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Les Mikesell]

On 2/25/2011 8:36 AM, Ross Walker wrote:

 Also, VMware could have made their module load across kernel updates without 
 recompile if they had set their kernel module up to support KABI (kernel ABI) 
 tracking, but they didn't.

That was the other strange thing.  RHEL5 was never a 'supported' 
platform, so a stable module wasn't included.  I sometimes see 
conspiracies where they might not exist, but the whole thing felt like 
running a Lotus product under a Microsoft OS back in the day when ever 
update would accidentally break the competitors product (all the way 
through SP6 to NT).  And even before the absolute breakage, it was very 
difficult to stabilize the guest clock.

The net effect here was that our internal developers who lean towards 
Windows anyway but will tolerate Linux if it works just gave up.  The 
Windows-hosted version of Server 2.x didn't have those problems.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:04:23 am Les Mikesell wrote:
  RHEL5 was never a 'supported' 
 platform, so a stable module wasn't included. 

According to VMware's documentation, RHEL5 was and is a fully supported 
platform for VMware Server 2.0 (see page 26 of the current 'VMware Server 
User's Guide' available at vmware.com for confirmation).  The binary modules 
are found, for the x86_64 distribution, in 
vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/binary/bld-2.6.18-8.el5-x86_64smp-RHEL5/

VMware Workstation has no issues with the glibc update; VMware is just not 
properly supporting VMware Server, has nothing to do with Red Hat (Ubuntu is 
also listed as a supported OS, yet when you do the glibc update that matches 
the one that causes the issues on RHEL, the same thing happens there).  VMware 
would prefer you run ESX or ESXi instead of 'ye olde' GSX product now known as 
VMware Server.
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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[David Brian Chait]

 VMware Workstation has no issues with the glibc update; VMware is just not 
 properly supporting VMware Server, has nothing to do with Red Hat (Ubuntu is 
 also listed as a supported OS, yet when you do the glibc update that matches 
   the one that causes the issues on RHEL, the same thing happens there).  
 VMware would prefer you run ESX or ESXi instead of 'ye olde' GSX product now 
 known as VMware Server.

VMware server is a dead product and has been dead for many years, VMware 
refocused all of their efforts to ESXi/ESX back in 2008.

-David

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote:
 VMware Workstation has no issues with the glibc update; VMware is just not 
 properly supporting VMware Server, has nothing to do with Red Hat (Ubuntu is 
 also listed as a supported OS, yet when you do the glibc update that matches 
   the one that causes the issues on RHEL, the same thing happens there).  
 VMware would prefer you run ESX or ESXi instead of 'ye olde' GSX product now 
 known as VMware Server.

 VMware server is a dead product and has been dead for many years, VMware 
 refocused all of their efforts to ESXi/ESX back in 2008.

... in the server world, maybe.  VMWare Workstation is actively
maintained and, as Lamar said, it has no issues with the glibc update.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Les Mikesell]

On 2/25/2011 11:24 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David Brian Chaitdch...@invenda.com  wrote:
 VMware Workstation has no issues with the glibc update; VMware is just not 
 properly supporting VMware Server, has nothing to do with Red Hat (Ubuntu 
 is also listed as a supported OS, yet when you do the glibc update that 
 matchesthe one that causes the issues on RHEL, the same thing happens 
 there).  VMware would prefer you run ESX or ESXi instead of 'ye olde' GSX 
 product now known as VMware Server.

 VMware server is a dead product and has been dead for many years, VMware 
 refocused all of their efforts to ESXi/ESX back in 2008.

 ... in the server world, maybe.  VMWare Workstation is actively
 maintained and, as Lamar said, it has no issues with the glibc update.

And we didn't see any similar problems with VMWare server hosted on windows.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[John R Pierce]

On 02/25/11 8:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Windows-hosted version of Server 2.x didn't have those problems.


I found all versions of VMware Server 2.0.x to be unstable under load on 
multiple different platforms and essentially unusable.   That was when I 
switched those systems over to VBox



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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Lars Hecking]

 You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else)
 preferred 1.x to 2.x.   The later versions of player are more like 1.x,
 allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and
 work quite well with 64 bit CentOS.  

 If you want automation, forget player. Current versions are distributed
 as installer scripts, not rpm, and I don't think they have fixed the
 problem/feature that prevents running the script non-interactively.


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[CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:04:08PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS 5.x 
 glibc 
 update?  I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the reason 
 for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't work.

You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else)
preferred 1.x to 2.x.   The later versions of player are more like 1.x,
allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and
work quite well with 64 bit CentOS.  


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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Machin, Greg]

I have always had issues with VMware server and compiling of kernel
modules, normally ended up costing a couple of days effort .. I have
found 2 is more resource intensive than 1. Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
Unsupported hardware.

Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.   

Greg Machin
Systems Administrator - Linux
Infrastructure Group, Information Services



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Subject: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:04:08PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS
5.x glibc 
 update?  I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the
reason 
 for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't
work.

You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else)
preferred 1.x to 2.x.   The later versions of player are more like 1.x,
allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and
work quite well with 64 bit CentOS.  


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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Scott Robbins]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote:


snip of good information

 Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
 up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
 there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
 Unsupported hardware.
 
 Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
 24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.   

Agreed--I haven't really found server, however, to be all that great for
24/7, so I assumed (and we know what happens when one assumes), that it
was being used for testing.  For any sort of production use, ESXi 4.1 is
quite good.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Les Mikesell]

On 2/24/11 8:56 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote:


 snip of good information

 Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
 up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
 there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
 Unsupported hardware.

 Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
 24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.

 Agreed--I haven't really found server, however, to be all that great for
 24/7, so I assumed (and we know what happens when one assumes), that it
 was being used for testing.  For any sort of production use, ESXi 4.1 is
 quite good.

Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want 
the 
console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with 
freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary.  And I have Server 1.x setups that have run for 
years with no attention or downtime.  I agree that ESXi is better, but it 
wasn't 
free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the host 
along with several guests.

Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out 
not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with 
bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior after 
the same minor-rev update.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Ben]

On 25/02/2011 1:13 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:04:08PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
 Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS 5.x 
 glibc
 update?  I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the reason
 for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't work.
 You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else)
 preferred 1.x to 2.x.   The later versions of player are more like 1.x,
 allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and
 work quite well with 64 bit CentOS.

I have begun to switch all my hosts without hardware virtualization, so 
can't use ESXi, to VirtualBox.

With the addition of an init.d script it works well as a headless 
virtual host.  The VirtualBox commandline support is far superior to 
VMware Server.  With the help of puppet I have automated the entire host 
install, configuration, guest vm creation and guest install and 
configuration.

VirtualBox was far easier to wrap puppet around than VMware Server was too.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[David Brian Chait]

On 2/24/11 8:56 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote:


 snip of good information

 Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get
 up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list
 there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on
 Unsupported hardware.

 Player is not a solution if the Virtual machine needs to be running
 24/7. It's more suited to testing and demo use.

 Agreed--I haven't really found server, however, to be all that great for
 24/7, so I assumed (and we know what happens when one assumes), that it
 was being used for testing.  For any sort of production use, ESXi 4.1 is
 quite good.

 Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want 
 the 
 console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with 
 freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary.  And I have Server 1.x setups that have run 
 for 
 years with no attention or downtime.  I agree that ESXi is better, but it 
 wasn't 
 free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the 
 host 
 along with several guests.

 Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out 
 not to work for VMware Server 2.0.   But CentOS did come through with 
 bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior 
 after 
 the same minor-rev update.


Simple solution really, bring up an ESXi box and use Vmware's free converter 
tool to convert the old VMs to ESXi (in most cases while they are running). It 
is a pretty seamless changeover, and ESXi is far better from a supportability 
and performance standpoint.
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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[John R Pierce]

On 02/24/11 9:18 PM, Ben wrote:
 I have begun to switch all my hosts without hardware virtualization, so
 can't use ESXi, to VirtualBox.

ESXi only needs hardware virtualization support for 64bit guest VMs.   
as long as you can live with 32bit VMs, you're good with older CPUs.  I 
have it running a dozen or more VMs on a quad Opteron 850 system (4 x 
single core 2.4Ghz)


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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[Ben]

On 25/02/2011 4:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 02/24/11 9:18 PM, Ben wrote:
 I have begun to switch all my hosts without hardware virtualization, so
 can't use ESXi, to VirtualBox.
 ESXi only needs hardware virtualization support for 64bit guest VMs.
 as long as you can live with 32bit VMs, you're good with older CPUs.  I
 have it running a dozen or more VMs on a quad Opteron 850 system (4 x
 single core 2.4Ghz)


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Thanks, I did not know that.  I could've swarn I had tested it on some 
old IBM x306.  Will have to take a look into that.

I still like that automation that I get with CentOS, puppet and VirtualBox.

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Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

[David Brian Chait]

 Thanks, I did not know that.  I could've swarn I had tested it on some 
 old IBM x306.  Will have to take a look into that.

 I still like that automation that I get with CentOS, puppet and VirtualBox.

 Ben

I think you need to download the VI3 rather than 4.1 to use 32 bit support, but 
it does work. I have it in production on some older hardware and it has not let 
me down yet.
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[CentOS] vmware

[mattias]

Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[aurfalien]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:

 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no  
VMPlayer, etc...


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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[mattias]

Bad
Because
My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
If I try a no xen kernel
The dhclient reply
No link check your cable
But all cables are connected 

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Of aurfal...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:

 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no VMPlayer,
etc...


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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 21.01.2011 22:31, schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com:
 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:
 
 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

Not meant to be nitpicking, but VMware is a company and not any specific
application or software solution. And you can get very different
virtualization products from VMware.

 No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no  
 VMPlayer, etc...
 
 
 - aurf

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[fred smith]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:40:17PM +0100, mattias wrote:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
 If I try a no xen kernel
 The dhclient reply
 No link check your cable
 But all cables are connected 
 
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 Of aurfal...@gmail.com
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:31 PM
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 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware
 
 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:
 
  Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?
 
 No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no VMPlayer,
 etc...

and you'll probably get a horrid crash when  you try. At least
I did when trying VmwareWorkstation.

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
 If I try a no xen kernel
 The dhclient reply
 No link check your cable
 But all cables are connected 

Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[mattias]

5.5
But that has worked before 
A intel card

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Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no xen 
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are 
 connected

Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[m . roth]

mattias wrote:
 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

a) stop top posting.
b) there are no twits here. Try writing complete sentences, not 140 char
twits.
c) Twiting is a *great* way to i) irritate me, and ii) lead me to utterly
ignore
   your questions, and not even try to help.

   mark
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 Behalf
 Of Alexander Dalloz
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no xen
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are
 connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[aurfalien]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote:

 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]  
 On Behalf
 Of Alexander Dalloz
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no  
 xen
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are
 connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?


When some one is kind enough to try and help, the least you can do is  
answer there questions.

And ppl here prefer bottom posting.

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

[mattias]

 

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Of aurfal...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote:

 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]
 On Behalf
 Of Alexander Dalloz
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no 
 xen kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables 
 are connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?


When some one is kind enough to try and help, the least you can do is answer
there questions.

And ppl here prefer bottom posting.

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[CentOS] vmware

[mattias]

I solved it
I installed the openvz kernel without openvz utilites
And now vmware works


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