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 open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled), for security > purposes (one less thing to worry about). >
open-vm-tools also requires fuse, FYI. VMWare does have a lot of kernel options in 3.10.25, which is what I upgraded the virtual machines to. The only module that wasn't in the kernel was vmblock. Dan
