On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:38 -0800, Matthew Marlowe wrote: > I'm not sure how much of the issue is gentoo 2.6 kernel specific vs generic > 2.6. At the very least, I know that 2.6 has HZ set to 1000 by default which > isn't very scaleable. Also, some vmware kernel modules, especially for ESX, > will not compile under 2.6.x (unless someone has patches I haven't found).
Wasn't HZ set to 1000 on 2.4 kernels, too? I know that there are kernel patches which make it tunable, but I was under the impression that the default was always 1000. I could be wrong on that. > > > - GSX and ESX support a greater range of hardware drivers, in particular, > > > the vmxnet nic driver which isn't detected in 2004.3. > > > > Show me where I can get it, and I'll include it. > > > > It's part of vmware tools. The module source is usually in one of the > subdirectories of /usr/lib/vmware-tools. Other than on an installed system... I guess I should have specified that. If I can't make an ebuild of it, then I cannot add it to the LiveCD easily. > > > - vmware tools isn't in portage yet, at least last I checked. This might > > > not be a big deal for those managing 1 vm, but can be quite painful if > > > you have dozens. > > > > Show me where I can get it, and I'll add it to portage. I couldn't find > > a download on their site. > > It is part of every vmware install. I'm not sure about the licensing. We can > always force users to manually put the tar ball in distfiles, like I believe > we do with the vmware workstation downloads. Most of my ESX/GSX installs > share a nfs mounted distfiles so that would work fine for me too. Well, to add it to portage, we would want to be able to download it, if possible. We could force the user to get the file themselves, if licensing forbids redistribution, but I would definitely prefer it be done all via portage, if possible. > I do see some issues with various versions of vmware requiring different > releases of vmware-tools. ESX 2.1 might require different from GSX which > might require different from workstation 5 beta? That was actually going to be my next question. Which one would we need to use? Are they compatible? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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