Thanks Marcelo. Your instructions worked well. I have some further questions for you or anyone else on the list.
After installing and starting it I get a number of warnings about /etc/redhat-release, /etc/redhat-version etc type files not found. There were different ones for various distributions but I have a 2.6.23 kernel from scratch. Google couldn't tell me anything about what should be in those files so I created the redhat versions of them and added a version number string of "5.4" to it. This seems to have silenced those warnings but I still get [guestinfo] warnings "Failed to get vmstats" and "Failed to get nic info". I'm guessing the previous two files tells guestinfo how to retrieve the latter guestinfo. What /etc/<dist>-release /etc/<dist>_version should I use or emulate? What do I put in those files? How do I resolve the guestinfo warnings? If there is a FM to read or even code pointers to help me sort this out I would appreciate getting pointed in the right direction. Thanks, James On 20-May-10 11:32 Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > Hi James, > > On 05/19/2010 02:41 PM, James wrote: >> I am trying to cross compile the open vmware tools package >> and have it added to the target directory tree. The linux target will >> not have gcc and other build tools available. The target will >> also be console only with no X features. >> >> I am able to get make to finish (after a few minor changes). >> >> I see that vmtoolsd is a wrapper script which does something >> with libtool libraries but it's not clear what that is exactly. >> I copied the .libs/vmtoolsd to the target and the services/plugins > > That file is the intermediate output generated by libtool (AFAIK). To > get the final binaries you need to run "make install". > > You can use DESTDIR (as in "make install DESTDIR=/some/temp/dir") to > install things into a temp directory, and then copy the binaries from > there. I recommend configuring with "--without-root-privileges" when > doing that. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
