On 24/02/2010 22:27, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > You might be interested in OSP packages provided by VMware that should > eliminate the need for running many scripts manually: > > http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html > > These are fully supported (the same level of support as for the tools coming > directly with the product) and should not require recompiling, just rerunning > vmwate-config-tools script so that prebuilt kernel modules will be installed > into proper directory. We expect distributions to maintain certain level of > compatibility within release and exiting modules to continue working.
I wanted to use that repository too for my Ubuntu 8.04 guests. However, it contains binary modules only for two kernel versions: 2.6.24-16 and 2.6.24-19. These kernels are the initial versions and outdated. The kernel security updates often state things like: "Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed." In practice this means that the VMware module from OSP will not work after the first such update. You could of course apt-get upgrade your kernel, linux-headers-`uname -r`, vmware-tools-kmod-source and friends, and then recompile. But the whole idea of a repository was to prevent this ;-) What I was after for our 20 or so guests, is up-to-date kernels + accompanying vmware modules, without recompilation on each host. I managed this by recompiling the VMware modules from the source packages of the OSP repository once every time there is an ABI change. The resulting binary modules are then uploaded onto our own APT repository. All the Ubuntu 8.04 guests use this repository, and can install up-to-date binary modules along with a new kernel. FYI these ABI changes happens every couple of months, therefore the list has become quite long: http://www.tienhuis.nl/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/ I set this up a while ago, maybe there are better ways of achieving the same results now. Best regards, -- * *** TIENHUIS Networking ** * * Dick Visser * * *** Touwbaan 68 * * * * 1018 HS * ** * Amsterdam * * * The Netherlands * * * +31622698108 *** ***
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