Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-17 11:57 AM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/17/2014 05:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: One major reason is open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled in the kernel, and . But... does NUT require modules? Or can I just compile in whatever I need? I generally have always run my

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-02-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/01/2014 05:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Coming back to this now... Is there a list of all kernel modules that need to be installed for open-vm-tools? Nope, but here's a list (through trial and error): General setup --- -*- Namespaces support --- [ ] User namespace (This needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-16 4:35 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 16-Jan-14 22:17, Daniel Frey wrote: Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and I've set up my APC ups to shutdown the host and all VMs, again all

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/17/2014 05:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: One major reason is open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled in the kernel, and . But... does NUT require modules? Or can I just compile in whatever I need? I generally have always run my servers without modules enabled (I know that

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-15 9:11 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: These are all virtualized under ESXi now so I did some reconfiguration and decided to add open-vm-tools for shutdown support through the host. All items for vmware are built into the kernel, and the VMs are working as they should.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 11:55 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-15 9:11 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: Did you mean it doesn't seem to affect the GUEST shutdown? Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Jarry
On 16-Jan-14 22:17, Daniel Frey wrote: Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and I've set up my APC ups to shutdown the host and all VMs, again all working. If you're interested in the howtos for the APC

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 01:35 PM, Jarry wrote: BTW if all you want is safe shutdown, it can be done even without vm-tools (which I personally do not like at all). In vSphere-client I have suspend instead of shutdown (current state with memory snapshot is saved), from ESXi you'd have to play a little

[gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-15 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I managed to drag several 3+ year old gentoo webserver installs to current. That was an interesting experience. I'd say it was difficult and time-consuming but not impossible. ;-) Believe me, they were kicking and screaming the whole way. These are all virtualized under ESXi now so I did