Hi Robert, On 04/30/2010 05:19 PM, Robert Feldman -X (robfeldm - Protingent Staffing at Cisco) wrote: > We have attempted > to install vm-tools earlier in our guest without much success, so I am > currently working on compiling vmxnet3 (extracted from 2.6.34 kern src or > from downloaded open-vm-tools-2010.03.20-243334, whatever works better) for > our kernel. Am a bit worried that vmxnet3 sources included in 2.6.32 or > later are not compatible with our 2.6.23 kernel.
You have three options here: . backport the upstreamed driver; since the kernel interfaces have changed between those releases, you'll have to fix these source compatibility issues. . take vmxnet3 from an older open-vm-tools release; the last one to include the vmxnet3 driver is 2009.12.16. . take the vmxnet3 sources from a VMware-distributed VMware Tools package. The sources included in the VMware distribution are also GPL, and contain all the compatibility layers needed to make them compile on kernels from 2.6.9. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
