Hi Stanislav, On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 06:10:43 PM Stanislav wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions. It will be very helpfull to understand how it should > work because I can't find answers in the documentation. > > First one is about vmware-checkvm. For the vSphere Client 4.1 with ESXi 4.1 > I see in the VMX file: virtualHW.version = "7" > config.version = "8" > > And for this VM in Summary I see: > VM version: 7 > > But in the guest OS with installed open-vmtools I see: > Linux(debug)# vmware-checkvm -h > VM's hw version is 4 > VMware software version 6 (good) > > Can someone explain situation with this versions? What does it mean?
The platform (ESX, WS) does not report true HW version to the guest; do not pay attention to the number reported by checkvm. The "software version" returned will be 6 unless something really drastic happens. > > > Second question is about disabling features in the vSphere Client like "send > ctrl+alt+del" or "install vmtools". Can we hide or disable this fields? I > see some fields already grayed out. That would be a question for the client folks, you better ask through normal support channels. > > > Third question is about showing IP addresses in the Summary tab. > If we use vSphere Client 4.1 with ESXi 4.1 it works fine and we can see IP > addresses assigned in the guest OS. But for vCenter 4.1/5.0 with ESXi 4.1 > we don't see it. And for vCenter 5.0 with ESXi 5.0 we can see it again. > > Are there any differences between versions in case Summary tab and updating > guest info by plugin(libguestInfo.so)? Is the difference only with open-vm-tools or with tolls shipped with product as well? Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
