Hi Marcelo, thx. for the info: Indeed everything we need seems to be working without any problems.
To prevent the log files grow and exhaust all the disk space I've added the following line to the .vmx configuration file of the affected virtual machines: log.rotateSize = 1048576 -Florian > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcelo Vanzin [mailto:mvan...@...] > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:29 AM > To: Florian Fuessl > Cc: 'open-vm-tools development' > Subject: Re: vcpu-0| GuestMsg: Unknown protocol magic number. > > 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 12 17:11:46.629: [vmsvc]: SetGuestInfo: Error sending rpc > message: > > Invalid guest information type. > > Without really digging in the code, it seems that an invalid RPC (for > your > version of ESX) is causing the "magic number" error to show up on the > host logs; > if other Tools features are working (for example, time synchronization) > then I > wouldn't worry about the error. > > Since you said the logs just show up on the host every 30s (which is > how often > the code that logs the messages above runs), it's a good indication > that other > features seem to be working. For example, a few lines before that on > the logs > you get a successful RPC: > > > Jul 12 17:11:45.329: [vmsvc]: Rpci: Sent request='info-set > guestinfo.ip > > xxx.xxx.xxx.90', reply='', len=0, status=1 > > -- > - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
