Hi Natanael,
On 12/15/2011 05:29 AM, Natanael Copa wrote:
I'm looking at the issue with building on Alpine Linux (uclibc):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3459926group_id=204462atid=989708
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and from
configure script
On 12/16/2011 01:36 PM, Natanael Copa wrote:
I was actully thinking of the getloadavg since my current patch for
that no longer applied. Looking at the changelog and diffing the
source (any public git/svn/mercural?) there was added yet another
bunnch if #ifdefs
The public git repository
issue at
the host level since the centos 5 guests still run extremely fast.
David
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Marcelo Vanzin mvan...@vmware.com wrote:
Hi David,
I forwarded your message to the internal team that owns pvscsi. I'll re-post
any
replies they send to the list
Hi Joakim,
On 08/10/2011 11:21 PM, Joakim Reck wrote:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
So, do you actually have a question? The error below seems clear to me: you
don't have the FreeBSD kernel sources
Hi Mike,
Thanks for reporting the issue and providing the patch. In general we can't
accept patches unless you send us a contribution agreement (see
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php), but I'll let the people
responsible for vmxnet3 know about the issue.
On 08/10/2011 03:55 AM,
Hi John,
On 07/26/2011 08:43 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
Our OSR6 efforts are starting with generation of the VM on
ESX 4.0 which offers guest OS types for SCO OpenServer 5 and
SCO UnixWare 7, but nothing for OpenServer 6.
The identifier provided by the guest os is, mostly, used for the UI only.
Hi John,
On 07/29/2011 01:29 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
What I would really like to accomplish is a more thorough round of testing.
I have built the Cunit open source package required to build the tests
directory, which yields several *.so files, but I am not certain how to
utilize this shared
Hi John,
Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with our HA feature. I've forwarded your
e-mail internally to the appropriate team, let's see if they have any
information to share.
On 07/18/2011 10:30 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
That suggests that there is some criteria beyond loss of heartbeat
Hi John,
The word I got is that if the VM is doing any I/O (disk or network), then HA
will not reset it. So just the Tools heartbeat going red is not enough for HA to
kick in.
Hope this helps,
On 07/18/2011 10:30 AM, John Wolfe wrote:
That suggests that there is some criteria beyond loss of
Hi John,
On 07/14/2011 03:36 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
lib/rpcIn/rpcin.c rpcin.h have 2 forms of the functions:
RpcIn_Construct()
RpcIn_Start()
with a different number of parameters and parameter type. The
selection is controlled by the define VMTOOLS_USE_GLIB.
lib/rpcIn contains
On 07/01/2011 01:53 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
1. Is it a bug that configure did not check for the presence
of glibmm, gtkmm and sigc++ ?
Probably. Most probably the dependency was added some time after configure.ac
was written in its current form, and never reflected in the configure script.
Hi John,
On 06/16/2011 01:31 PM, John Masinter wrote:
SUMMARY: Is there any tool or release that aids in integrating Open VM Tools
modules directly into my Linux kernel src tree?
I have never tries this script for this purpose, but open-vm-tools ships with
modules/linux/dkms.sh, which creates
Hi John,
On 05/31/2011 12:07 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
While the:
- date of the tar file
- dates on the files in that bundle (strangely all June 1, 2010)
- the build number in the tar file name
open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024.tar.gz
suggest that the source release contains
Hi Mark,
You're probably not going to have much luck getting help with open-vm-tools from
VMware's tech support. That being said, I have no idea what they mean by
open-vm-tools not logging properly on ESXi.
On 05/02/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
We're having issues with FreeBSD on our
Hi Stephen,
I sent your e-mail to the appropriate team inside VMware and they'll take care
of it. Thanks!
On 03/31/2011 09:18 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
The vmxnet driver always requests irq with name of 'vmxnet' which
is incorrect. It causes multiple entries in /proc/interrupts and confuses
On 02/13/2011 01:40 PM, Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle wrote:
In ghIntegrationInt.h:Bool GHIPlatformIsSupported(void);
a string comparison is made with a null pointer when not running in a
supported desktop environment (In this case, xmonad)
vmware-xdg-detect-de prints nothing
Thanks for the
On 02/10/2011 12:18 AM, James Ko wrote:
I have a restricted shell which limits the user from the underlying linux
apps and filesystem
but authorization is using the usual mechanisms. VIX would allow access to
the underlying
filesystem bypassing the restricted shell.
As for the logs,
On 02/09/2011 11:24 AM, James Ko wrote:
Is VIX really required for quiescing? I would actually prefer to have VIX
disabled as I see it as a potential
security risk for the guest.
VIX is needed for quiescing on Linux, yes; that's how the freeze / thaw scripts
are executed. There are a few
On 09/08/2010 03:07 PM, Bill Rees wrote:
Is there a description of how vmtools power control works? For instance, how
does the power button signal trigger the poweroff-vm-default script?
There isn't a formal spec that I know of, but from the tools side, all action
regarding power scripts
Hi James,
On 06/24/2010 07:22 PM, James wrote:
Of course I also see that I can just add custom user scripts to
the /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/poweroff-vm-default.d/ directory
and that is just what I'm doing now. The problem of course is that
if my script does the power off at the end the
Hi James,
On 05/19/2010 02:41 PM, James wrote:
I am trying to cross compile the open vmware tools package
and have it added to the target directory tree. The linux target will
not have gcc and other build tools available. The target will
also be console only with no X features.
I am able
eXeC001er wrote:
I tried to build previos release open-vm-tool, but i get new error: (with
--disable-icu or without --disable-icu)
You want --without-icu. You can find other options by running configure
--help.
I haven't had time to look at why open-vm-tools don't like the ICU version
eXeC001er wrote:
I disable ICU: --without-icu. but the error has not disappeared.
I bulid with gcc and with sun-gcc. no result.
I installed OS 2009.06. no result.
Did you start from a clean tree (make distclean)? There might be some wrong
dependency somewhere as someone suggested.
I compile
eXeC001er wrote:
Make previos version is ok! (./configure --without-x --disable-multimon
--without-icu --without-gtkmm) I don't need X.
This is what I use on opensolaris 2009.06:
./configure --disable-unity --without-dnet --without-icu --without-gtkmm
--without-x
(I just remove the last
Hi Ken,
Almost lost your message in my spam folder. :-) I recommend subscribing to the
mailing list when sending messages, there's a lot of spam that would get through
if we open it up again...
Kenny Murphy cr85br...@gmail.com
I have been reading over the open vmware tools source. I'm
Hi Florian,
Florian Fuessl wrote:
That's the respond every 30s:
Jul 12 17:11:46.627: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sending request='SetGuestInfo 4
build-130226'
Jul 12 17:11:46.629: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sent request='SetGuestInfo 4
build-130226', reply='Invalid guest information type.', len=31, status=0
Jul
Hi Florian,
Florian Fuessl wrote:
running open-vm-tools 2008.11.18-130226 on Debian Lenny within ESX 2.5.4
build-119703 produces the following error msgs about every 30s in the
vmware.log files of the virtual machines:
First, a disclaimer: the version of ESX you're running is really old (even
Hi Eric,
Erich Neuwirth wrote:
So I did a second installation, and now drag and drop does not work at
all any more.
It's been a long time since I played with vmblock (and Dmitry, who has worked
with it recently, is OOTO this week), so I can't help much. But just to make
sure, is the vmblock
Hi Ashok,
Ashok Sudarsanam wrote:
VMware tech support told me that for Linux virtual machines, they do not
support the quiescing of the guest filesystem, hence they do not include the
vmsync module as part of the VMware tools. However, since open-vm-tools
includes the vmsync driver, I
Hi Ashok,
Ashok Sudarsanam wrote:
Given that there is no way to invoke the vmsync driver from a snapshot
request, I was wondering whether there is any other way to invoke this driver
on a Linux VM? For instance, the open-vm-tools web-site says this about
vmsync: It is used by the vmbackup
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
pvscsi: Unknown parameter `vmblock'
This one beats me... I didn't see anything suspicious in your script. Can you
grep -r vmblock in pvscsi's dkms source dir?
vmhgfs: Unknown symbol Backdoor_InOut
vmhgfs: Unknown symbol BackdoorHbIn
vmhgfs: Unknown symbol BackdoorHbOut
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Just one question:
Is there already a patch for the open-vm-tools (2009.05.22) for Kernel 2.6.30
available?
Did you try with any other kernel (just to make sure this is really something
caused by changes in 2.6.30)?
for now I see it failing
Hi Olivier,
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
Then I had to patch docs/api/Makefile.am to add the -e
's,##{PROJECT_NAME}##,@PACKAGE_STRING@,' line and then I had to fix
lib/wiper/wiperPosix.c to handle fgets return.
Thanks for pointing out the PROJECT_NAME thing, I'll fix that. Dominique also
pointed
Hi Olivier,
Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
Trying to minimize the number of includes to put in the dkms build tree I'm
trying to create, I've found that there are 2 hgfs.h , 2 block.h and 2
stubs.h
includes that are identical except for the top comment (tipicaly the
license).
Is it normal?
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:11:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I
have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and
over).
The lists are open for posting to everyone, not
Josh Rickmar wrote:
OK, thanks for the help. This solved that problem, but now I am getting
another compile issue Here's the output:
Finally got some time to create a 7.1 VM. I wasn't able to reproduce the
problem
(although I'm not using gmake). We should be putting out a new refresh of the
Hi Josh,
Josh Rickmar wrote:
I just downloaded the latest release from SourceForge, and it is currently
failing to build on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. Any help?
I don't have a 7.1 VM ready, but I tried on 7.0 and it is building fine. Could
you send us your configure line and your gcc version?
--
Josh Rickmar wrote:
I have /usr/local/include/unicode.h
Hmmm, that kinda sucks. I'm actually surprised compilation didn't break before
that file. Can you figure out which package added that file?
I'll look at the configure script and see if I can find a simple solution to
the
problem.
--
-
Josh Rickmar wrote:
% pkg_which /usr/local/include/unicode.h
libunicode-0.4_9
Could you try this patch? It seems to work for me. (You'll probably need
autoconf / automake / etc to rebuild the makefiles...)
--- configure.ac
+++ configure.ac 09-02-05 16:35:53
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@
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