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 thought that by installing open-vm-tools on the > Ubuntu-8.10 machine, I could get this to work. Doing an 'lsmod' verifies > that vmsync is in fact loaded into the kernel. However, I don't believe it > is being invoked when I invoke a VMware-snapshot (either through the SDK or > the VI client).
Unfortunately, tech support was right: while we developed the sync driver and added all the code to perform what you described, we haven't been able to dedicate QA resources to test this functionality (due to various reasons, including lack of customer interest - hint hint! :-)). So the code that triggers the sync driver on ESX (when creating a quiesced snapshot) is disabled if the guest OS is not Windows, making the sync driver pretty much useless for any practical purpose... -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
