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Hi Dmitry, On 3/21/2012 8:19 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: We are using open-vmtools always. I'm trying to investigate this issue and don't understand the difference.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? For one ESX I see that it works. For another(the same version and build) - doesn't work. But for the second one - I can set IP by running: "vmtoolsd --cmd " Thanks, Dmitry -- Stas |
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