On 30 July 2010 19:35, Marcelo Vanzin <mvan...@vmware.com> wrote: > Have you checked the following document? > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf > > It has a section on how to update the kernel modules. If your problem is with > the modules not compiling, then you'd have to patch it yourself or wait for > the > next update (don't know how often they do that for OSPs...).
Even the binary packages wouldn't install because the updated kernel. >> Have just tried the 'official' tar installed, and that works fine, >> i.e. no problems making snapshots etc. >> I have filed a bug report for the Ubuntu tools: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/611644 > > I'm pretty sure the Ubuntu folks won't be able to help you there. This is most > probably a problem in our code that we'll have to fix... since we're still in > the development cycle for the next release, no idea when QA will get to that. > :-) > > (Since I'm actually the person who plays in that part of the code, I might > take > a look at it myself when I find some time.) Aha ;-) That would really be appreciated! I think I'll stick with the open-vm-tools package, and manually replace the kernel mods on every kernel update. Thanks Dyonisius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
