Tracker item #3231992, was opened at 2011-03-21 06:12 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by eswierk You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3231992&group_id=204462
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: checkvm Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Ed Swierk (eswierk) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: checkvm hangs on EC2 Initial Comment: Running an Ubuntu 10.10 UEC VM on Amazon EC2 (ami-b7e4b4f2), installing the open-vm-tools package (2010.06.16-268169-3ubuntu1) hangs apt-get when running the /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools script. (Yes, it's pointless to install open-vm-tools on EC2 or Xen, but hanging seems too severe a punishment.) The script runs vmware-checkvm to see whether it's running on VMware. This program tries to read from a magic IO port 0x5658, but this just hangs when running on EC2. Assuming the problem is Xen and not EC2 specifically, either the init script or vmware-checkvm.c could test for the existence of the /proc/xen directory before attempting the IO port read. Or is there a safer way than running vmware-checkvm to check that the system is running on VMware? (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/737668 for the bug I filed against Ubuntu.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=3231992&group_id=204462 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
