On 12/19/2011 10:18 AM, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> The script didn't seem to do anything which would be important for my
> distro, that's why I decided to remove it. If I understood it right,
> it's mostly does things for pausing and restoring VM's, is that correct?
I think the script only does so
On 12/17/2011 08:53 AM, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Exit status is 1.
> It's complaining that the ifup script is not found by the network script.
> I see the network script is also looking for "ifconfig", which we do not
> include anymore (we transistioned to "ip").
>
> It seems I'll have to create a c
On 12/16/2011 12:21 PM, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Log files are attached.
> No custom scripts have been defined, everything is out of the box
> open-vm-tools.
[Dec 16 14:59:31.887] [ debug] [powerops] State change: OS_Halt
[Dec 16 14:59:31.953] [ debug] [powerops] Script exit code: 256, success
On 12/16/2011 07:52 AM, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> I'm looking for assistance for the following issue:
> Using ESXI v5 and the latest open-vm-tools or the latest stable
> open-vm-tools, I need to execute "shutdown guest" twice in order for
> the VM to actually shut down.
Without any logs, at the v
On 10/27/2011 04:57 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
> Anyone know if vmxnet 3 is supported in FreeBSD 8 under ESXi 5? Also is
> Jumbo Frames supported? What release?
The official VMware Tools that ship with vSphere 5 have vmxnet3 modules for all
supported FreeBSD releases, including 8.
The source is n
Hi John,
On 10/15/2011 07:09 PM, John Angelmo wrote:
> pvscsi works great in most linuxdistributions, but I wonder about the support
> in FreeBSD.
> Would adding the driver via open-vm-tools be an option or is it something
> that needs to be added to FreeBSD?
Currently we don't have a port of p
Hi,
On 08/27/2011 03:38 AM, dj_palindrome wrote:
> I'm resorting to this venue only because the Debian package maintainers
> of open-vm-tools do not even classify their own bug reports, much less
> actually respond to them, much less actually produce a package based on
> anything later than 8.4
On 07/01/2011 09:02 AM, Lavenda Chen wrote:
> But I can not copy/paste across multi this kind of VM. Besides, can not move
> mouse out of the console. have to click "Ctrl" + "alt" to release mouse.
> Is that because no X windows installed?
Copy & Paste and mouse auto grab/ungrab only work inside
On 06/13/2011 03:50 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> No, libdnet is not shown in the list output from ldd. I'm guessing that
> once I re-build with libdnet it will work? Any other requirements?
libdnet should be all that's needed.
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On 06/12/2011 01:18 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> When using the VMware Tools package, each IP address is reported with its
> vNIC association.
>
> But, when I use open-vm-tools, I only get a single IP address reported per
> VM.
Are your open-vm-tools compiled with libdnet support? You can check by doi
On 12/19/2010 07:43 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> I did build without-x. According to ldd, the libraries in current builds
> not present in "guestd" are: libvmtools.so.0, libgmodule-2.0.so.0,
> libgobject-2.0.so.0, libgthread-2.0.so.0, librt.so.1, libglib-2.0.so.0,
> libpcre.so.3. I think all the l
On 12/19/2010 01:11 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> After getting everything built, I was amazed to see how large open-vm-tools
> has grown. When I last built it, in '08, guestd was ~500K.Now, with
> all the library dependencies, plug-in modules, and general growth,
> open-vm-tools is larger than th
On 10/11/2010 12:30 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> I have just installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-dkms in an Ubuntu guest. I
> also have configured 1 shared folder through VMWare's settings dialog box.
> However, I do not see the shared folder.
>
> I was previously using VMWare Tools as provided by
On 08/20/2010 11:56 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> In any case, to clarify, I should execute vmware-user-suid-wrapper
> before vmtoolsd gets started?
> I'm asking because the open-vm-tools daemon initiates vmtoolsd, so
> unless I remove the daemon, I have no chance to do as you suggest.
vmware-us
On 08/20/2010 10:43 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Is there anything the end user needs to do so they can get the mouse
> integration and copy/paste under X between the VM and host machines?
> With the removal of vmware-user, I'm not being able to get these to work
> and starting vmwaretoolsd& see
On 07/30/2010 03:27 AM, Dyonisius Visser wrote:
> I thought I'd give the OSP packages a try first, because they will
> yield a cleaner system.
> Although Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is supported, the OSP packages do not work,
> because of the recently upgraded kernel:
> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/27
On 07/28/2010 02:58 PM, Dyonisius Visser wrote:
> It has been working pretty well since the release in April, but I
> guess the version in Ubuntu (236320) lacks behind the stuff in the
> VMware repository at f.i.
> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/index.
On 07/28/2010 02:36 PM, Dyonisius Visser wrote:
>> The only thing I can guess here is that you have the vmsync module loaded.
>> Check
>> it with "lsmod", and disable it if it's loaded; it's currently an
>> experimental
>> module and has some issues in current releases.
>
> By just removing the
On 07/28/2010 03:50 AM, Dyonisius Visser wrote:
> Since the upgrade snapshots of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) VMs take much longer.
> This surfaced because we use VCB to do backups, and the snapshot would
> time-out, and the VM would become stuck in an unusable state.
The only thing I can guess here is th
Hi Dyonisius,
Is there any specific reason why you're not running the Tools packages from
VMware? The versions included in distros are currently unsupported and mostly
untested by VMware...
About your specific question, there's very little to go on here to diagnose the
problem. Having logs would
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-t
On 04/19/2010 10:27 AM, Gilad Benjamini wrote:
> This sounds like an excellent solution for me.
> When is its presence checked ?
> I was thinking of placing the file in a different directory, and if I do need
> it at some point I can always
> - Stop tools daemon
> - Put file back in the plugins di
Hi Gilad,
On 04/19/2010 09:59 AM, Gilad Benjamini wrote:
>> On Friday 16 April 2010 11:07:08 am Gilad Benjamini wrote:
>>> Is there a way to override parameters from a VM’s vmx file by the
>> vmtoolsd
>>> configuration file ? Specifically, I’d like to override the time
>>> synchronization, and tim
pri...@pato.ch wrote:
> I'm trying to compile the open-vm-tools on Opensolaris build 126. I get
> various
> errors and am out of ideas.
>
> What could be wrong here?
Try configuring with "--without-gtkmm". The code that uses gtkmm doesn't compile
on OpenSolaris for some reason, and we haven't re
Hi Guerney,
Guerney D Hunt wrote:
> I need VMtools for Fedora core 9. Fedora Core 9 is not supported by VMware
> tools, that is why we are using open tools. Where do I find the init scripts?
> As I said, we have the open tools running on Core 9 for VMware 6.05, but they
> (the same package, we tr
Guerney D Hunt wrote:
> Hugh, The problem is that I can get the tools to install on VM ware 6.05 but
> not VM ware 6.5. on 6.5 the install appears to go well but the local file
> system reports a failure (although it works) and the HG file system reports a
> failure. The question is what changed?
Hugh wrote:
> VMware currently maintains a
> Perl-based installer for the Tools that is pretty good about providing that
> support under a variety of distributions and environments.
Hmmm, that should probably be changed. The perl-based installer has never been
part of open-vm-tools, and "make in
Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> I have having trouble running the configure script to compile
> open-vm-tools-2009.08.24-187411. It can't find glib > 2.6, however I
> have 2.14.0 installed as part of the SUNWgnome-base-libs package.
Could you post the exact output from the process?
One thing to take
Craig Jones wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 11 but really need a VM to run Windows still,
> otherwise I'm re-formatting back to MS :(
>
> I've downloaded the open-vm-tools tarball and extracted it. What now??
I think you got things a little confused.
open-vm-tools is the open source version of VMwa
Hi Mark,
Mark Grimes wrote:
> Jun 29 19:13:57.022: vcpu-0| TOOLS sending 'OS_PowerOn' (3) state change
> request
> Jun 29 19:13:57.023: vcpu-0| Guest: toolbox: Version: build-167859
> Jun 29 19:13:57.050: vcpu-0| TOOLS Unable to send OS_*: tools failed to
> interpret cmd
>
> The host recognizes
Mark Grimes wrote:
> Yes, thanks. That works.
> Now to determine if it can manage a small binary blob of data...
You'll probably need to base64-encode it. Also, the host has a limit for how
much data it will store in these variables (the default value is 1MB; you can
override it by setting "too
Mark Grimes wrote:
> Nice! I can set/get values back and forth between the host and guest.
> But the changes don't stick across a guest OS power cycle!
> How do I get a value to be permanent?
It's been a long time since I looked at that, but I believe that for a value to
be stored permanently i
Mark Grimes wrote:
> I'm having difficulty finding documentation on rpc commands.
That's probably because there isn't much. :-)
> For example, I would like send some simple commands from my guest OS to the
> host to confirm the interface is up and running.
> Can someone provide examples of some
Hi Mark,
Mark Grimes wrote:
> I've got a custom linux application in which I would like to add support for
> vmtools. I've got the kernel modules (vmci, vsock, etc) compiled and am able
> to insmod them. What other vmtools daemons, cmd line utilities or scripts to
> I need to get the VMware h
Danny.Terweij wrote:
> For example:
> both sync'd time: 10:00:00
> After some time:
> Host: 10:04:00
> Guest: 10:02:00
> Then arround this 10:02:00 on the guest, it is reset to 10:04:00 as this is
> the time on the Host.
So it seems the sync code is doing its job, but it's weird that you're seein
Danny.Terweij wrote:
> Okay great. i do see improvements.
> In realtime ~4 minutes, vmware guest clock slows down about ~2 minutes.
> Then i see a time update and above starts again.
When you say "guest clock slows down", do you mean the guest clock is ahead of
the host and slows down, or is behi
Danny.Terweij wrote:
> After that:
> configure: error: libXext not found. Please configure without X11
> (using --without-x), or install the libXext devel package(s).
> used the trigger
>
> After that:
> configure: error: dnet-config was not found on your PATH. Please configure
> without dnet (usi
Hi Danny,
Danny.Terweij wrote:
> configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>
> Yum reports:
> Package glibc-2.5-34.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package glibc-2.5-34.i686 already installed and latest version
>
> How can i install it without breaking de default system?
The req
Hi Dominique,
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>>>> On 3/19/2009 at 1:04, Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
>> You can get the new release from SourceForge or by updating your git
>> mirrors. New in this release: * The new DnD V3 protocol is now available in
>> open-vm-tools.
>
Hello there,
Quick X wrote:
>> You replied to the mailing list, just FYI. :-)
> Amusing, I hoped I replyed to this one right... *smiles*
It went to the list again, FYI. :-)
>> If the 6.5.1 update doesn't work [...]
> I seem to have failed -_-. The Offical VMware tooles with 6.5.1 didn't work
>
Hello,
Quick X wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply, I also hope I'm replying to this correctly *not use
> to mailing lists*
You replied to the mailing list, just FYI. :-)
> VMware Workstation 6.5.0 build-118166
>
> The VMWare Tools it was install was "VMwareTools-6.5.0-118166.tar.gz". The
> buil
Hello,
I'll try to reply to the best of my knowledge, but I'm not very familiar with
the Ubuntu-packaged version of open-vm-tools.
Quick X wrote:
> I'm running a Kubuntu 8.10 guest host and the Offical VMWare tools had some
> complation errors (vsock with kernel heads, and unsupported video drive
Hi Sean,
Sean Dilda wrote:
> What VMware products (and versions thereof) off the paravirtualized SCSI
> device?
None of the current available products support the device yet - it's still
under
development for our next ESX platform release.
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