Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:57, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/1/2011 2:09 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hmmm... I've compiled VMXNET into the kernel, but can't get VMXNET to perform; booting complained of inexistent network. Adding e1000 into the kernel works though. Could it be because the Cloud Provider has preconfigured my VMware vSphere with

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:58, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs

[gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the