Michael Weiser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm facing a somewhat peculiar problem with open-vm-tools 2009.12.16 on > a minimalistic, current Debian testing. This same VM I use on hosts with > VMware Fusion 2.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and VMware Workstation 6.5.1 on > SuSE 10.1 and 11.1. It behaves the same everywhere. > > Upon suspend of the VM, VMware complains, that I'm not running VMware > Tools. Also, time synchronisation with the host isn't working. After > some debugging I found, that Debian starts vmtoolsd on boot but later > there's no process vmtoolsd running. There're no log entries and no > other messages. > > When executing vmtoolsd with the --log option I get the message > > [ warning] [Gtk] cannot open display: > > When run from inside an X11 session, it starts okay. So it seems, > vmtoolsd requires a running X server to function. Is that the case? Is > it meant to be that way or a bug? Can I, for the time being, work around > the problem? > > As far as I can gather, vmtoolsd needs to run as root. So starting it at > boot time makes sense. But since I don't start a graphical display > manager, there'll be no X, yet, and vmtoolsd will bail straight away. > Even if I could start vmtoolsd as root automatically when I later login > in as normal user and start an X server, time synchronisation and > suspend scripts would not work until then. > > I also want the X11 screen resizing function to continue working, when I > decide to start X. Right now it does, since vmware-user seems to be > enough for that. But from the ChangeLog I gather that all functions of > vmware-guestd and vmware-user are meant to migrate to vmtoolsd. So > compiling vmtoolsd without X11 support or removing the X11 plugins will > break that function eventually.
This brings up a concern of mine that I hope to address soon. I run several virtual servers, and would like some of the vmtools functionality, namely timekeeping and the vmxnet device driver. Needless to say, there is no X11 on any of these machines. My question is, is there a way to install just the pieces I need? I certainly won't be installing X11 on any of these guests. -- -Eric 'shubes' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
