On Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:57:43 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 17.05.2012 23:40, schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > > On Thursday, May 17, 2012 07:48:35 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > >> but it is since a long time in the upstream linux kernel > >> as "vmw_balloon" like also "vmxnet3" and "vmw_pvscsi" > >> > >> hopefully sometimes "vsock", "vmci" > > > > We are presently working on getting VMCI (and later vsock) upstream. > > cool, what is exactly the need of "vsock"
It is a new socket family with semantics similar to the standard TCP sockets which can be used to communicate with code running on hypervisor platform without network being involved. > "vmci" is AFAIK used for "VMware HA" and the most > important thing beside vmxnet3 in vSphere custers Hmm, VMCI does not have userspace components (vsock and hgfs use it) so I am not sure how HA would make use of it... Heartbit from vmtools service uses different communication channel. This might change in the future though. > > >> and "vmsync" will also be included > > > > vmsync will not be upstreamed since newer kernel provide FIFREEZE/FITHAW > > functionality needed to quiesce the filesystems in order to perform > > consistent backup. If VMware Tools detect that kernel supports these > > ioctls then vmsync driver is not used. > > if i understand you right i can thow away "kernel/drivers/misc/vmsync.ko" > in my open-vm-tools packages on Fedora with 3.3.x kernels and > VMware DataRecovery will still work? Yes. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
