On 3/22/2012 10:09 AM, Stanislav wrote: > On 3/21/2012 8:42 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 08:32:55 PM Stanislav wrote: >>> 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 "info-set guestinfo.ip 1.1.1.1" and it is shown in Summary as well. >>> But after some time I see it disappeared because vmtoolsd is running in >>> parallel in background(as I understand it's a polling timeout). It looks >>> like at the first one - vmtoolsd can update nicInfo and hostname. And for >>> another one - it can't update nicInfo but can update hostname >>> automatically. >> Is this the with the same VM running on the 2 hosts or are there different >> VMs? What are the guest OSes and how are NICs configured? >> >> Thanks, >> Dmitry >> >> > I'm talking about two different VMs on two different ESXs(the same > versions and build number). I'm running WindRiver Linux with changed > open-vmtools. I've changed IP retrieving mechanism to do it > directly(don't use usual IOCTLs). I mean I've added function to save > what we need in the struct nicInfo. After that it works like usual, i.e. > send this struct to GuestInfoUpdateVmdb. It works fine for one VM, I can > see the full list in Summary tab. But for another VM - I don't. I'm > trying to understand differences but see that VMX files are the same. > It's very strange. > I've found that if we have more than 4 ethernet devices on the VM it works fine. But if we have 3 and less - it doesn't work. It's very interesting.
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