Hi John, On 07/26/2011 08:43 AM, John Wolfe wrote: > Our OSR6 efforts are starting with generation of the VM on > ESX 4.0 which offers guest OS types for "SCO OpenServer 5" and > "SCO UnixWare 7", but nothing for OpenServer 6.
The identifier provided by the guest os is, mostly, used for the UI only. The other uses are for features that wouldn't support SCO anyway, so having it not completely accurate wouldn't really be a problem aside from the cosmetic issue. The warning you saw in hostd's logs is because it expects the guest to provide exactly the same string it has in its internal table; looking at the ESX 4.0 sources it seems there are three flavors of SCO: openserver5, openserver6 and unixware7. I don't know for sure but my guess is that they are case-sensitive. They're also not marked as fully supported, although I don't know if that flag affects anything in the UI (e.g. whether to show the OS when setting up a new VM). But none of this fixes the original bug that was fixed on ESX 5.0, where the Tools status would be incorrectly reported for OSes that don't have official VMware Tools packages. So I can't really tell you what the exact behavior there would be, because I don't know. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
