I see from the "open-vm-tools 2010.04.25 release" announcement that development is moving on to upstream 2.6.33, and of course open-vm-tools development should follow the latest kernel. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4BD72B8B.2020200%40vmware.com
Previous to today I was also happily using open-vm-tools 2010.02.23 on Ubuntu Lucid LTS kernel 2.6.32-21 which is very easy to install with apt-get install --no-install-recommends linux-headers-`uname -r` open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools (If you want the GUI leave off "--no-install-recommends"; thanks to Dick Visser for the tip https://confluence.terena.org/display/~visser/open-vm-tools+in+Ubuntu+Lucid ) Unfortunately today the lucid kernel update 2.6.32-22 no longer loads the vmxnet module, though it built fine with dkms and the other vm* modules load. I'm a bit concerned about using open-vm-tools on lucid since it broke after the very first lucid kernel update, and development has moved on. I definitely don't want to be stuck choosing between an old unsupported kernel or bleeding edge (as I often was with precompiled VMWare Tools modules). Is it worth using open-vm-tools 2010.02.23 on lucid? What are others' plans? By the way, here's a dumb example of the performance difference between pcnet32 and vmxnet on the same VM: Downloading a 4GB DVD.iso file to /dev/null (no file I/O): wget http://local/dvd.iso -O /dev/null pcnet32 on 2.6.32-22-generic-pae: 100%[=====================================================================================================>] 4,376,366,672 13.2M/s in 5m 41s vmxnet on 2.6.32-21-generic-pae: 100%[=====================================================================================================>] 4,376,366,672 29.0M/s in 2m 9s It's also possible to get an e1000 device by adding this to your vmx file: ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
