Hi Marcelo
Thanks very much for the clarification.
Ashok
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <mvan...@vmware.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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