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vmware tools on ESX/ESXi 4 with linux kernel version >= 2.6.29 (patch)

lucasrangit — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:01:16 GMT

Anyone tried this with ESXi 4, latest vmware-tools, and Ubuntu 9.10 Server's virtual machine kernel version 2.6.31?

CentOS Issues after installing ESX 4 rpm's

osde.info — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:20 GMT

I've also just seen this on a 32 bit CentOS 5.4 VM with vmware tools installed.

/sbin/ldconfig: Cannot mmap file /usr/lib/libvmGuestLib.so.
/sbin/ldconfig: Cannot mmap file /usr/lib/libDeployPkg.so.
/sbin/ldconfig: Cannot mmap file /usr/lib/libvmGuestLibJava.so.

etc

regards
clive
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VMware Tools Kills Native Boot of Linux

exppi163 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:48 GMT

astiegmann, thanks for your inputs. Yes, I restarted X and followed the instructions for vmxnet at the end of vmware-config-tools.pl. And yes, compiz works on native after installing an NVIDIA driver, but having compiz stuff enabled kills logging in under VMware. I think that there should be a check for this -- compiz messes up VMware.

vmware-config-tools.pl hangs forever

erlingre — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:38:12 GMT

Issue resolved.

It turned out that $PAGER was set to /usr/bin/cat of some reason in the environment where
vmware-config-tools.pl -d executed. That caused vmware-config-tools.pl to ask where cat was
because it was not in /usr/bin (correct is /bin). I added PAGER=/usr/bin/less to the
script and vmware-config-tools.pl completed without problems.

Best regards,

Erling

Why would I want to use the OSP vs. an RPM?

DSTAVERT — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:46:10 GMT

Any server you don't want to install a compiler.

auto update tools for custom kernel?

msuchoff — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:06:05 GMT

The precompiled binary modules in VMwareTools are not up to date with latest kernels for CentOS 5.3. To get around this, we compile modules for our kernel. We then distribute these modules with virtual machines that do not include gcc or other tools necessary to recompile tools.

If vm is setup to automatically check and update tools, will the update fail because if latest tools do not contain modules for kernel and vm doesn't contain gcc to compile new modules?

This is important because we don't ship virtual appliances with gcc necessary to compile tools - and our experience is that VMware does not keep up with compiled modules for every kernel update shipped by our Linux vendor(s).

RHEL 5 running vmware tools seen as Other Linux 2.6

sjadapa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:59:31 GMT

I have the same issue after upgrading to Vcentre 4.0.

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VMware Tools 'out of date' issue

Texiwill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:17:29 GMT

Hello,

You can also switch to the OSP version of the tools.

Best regards,
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VMware-tool 3.0.2 problem with ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Texiwill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:14:53 GMT

Hello,

That is generally ignorable. I have never had a problem with VMware Tools that I have rebuilt. I would suggest you use the OSP versions and not v3.0.2 of the tools. It will contain what you need to use.

Best regards,
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OSP LSB Dependancy?

Ritmo2k — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:22:42 GMT

Thanks for responding Texiwill,

I later learned that the deps are a result of the lsb package only and obviously not needed by any vmware components. I am actually contributing a patch to the spec file for the open source packages to use standard shell scripting to work around the need for lsb and thus eliminate it.

Thanks!

RHEL vmtools rpm's

Ritmo2k — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:29:15 GMT

Yeah, it was setup right, I just disabled it...
Thanks!

Ubuntu / Debian Installer Package Request

Texiwill — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:21:41 GMT

Hello,

Check out http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf as it has Ubuntu OSP packages listed as supported.

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Install and Use link broken

RDellimmagine — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:03:06 GMT

I fixed the link as suggested by wila. Thanks, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

Automating VMTools Install on Windows

AWo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:51:15 GMT

From the manual describing the automatic installation of the Tools via MSI to suppress driver signing messages. If you look at the registry before and after you may find the key which disables the messages:

For all Windows systems except Windows Vista:
a) On the virtual machine’s desktop or Start menu, right-click My Computer and choose Properties.
b) Click the Hardware tab and click Driver Signing.
c) In the Driver Signing Options dialog box, click Ignore and click OK.
d) Click OK in the System Properties dialog box.

For Windows Vista:
a) On the Start menu, right-click Computer and choose Properties.
b) Click Advanced system settings > Hardware > Windows Update Driver Settings.
c) Click Never check for drivers when I connect a new device and click OK.
d) Click OK in the System Properties dialog box.

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SOLVED: 4.0 issue: When installing -virtual or -server packages, -generic is also installed

fpjs — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:35:37 GMT

Huh, this is very strange behavior from apt. Apparently the order of the packages matters to the package manager.

When you switch the packages on the command line, and use this command:

aptitude install vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-server vmware-tools-nox

instead of this one:

aptitude install vmware-tools-nox vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-server

you get the desired result, no generic kernel and no generic vmware packages:

root@server:~# aptitude install vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-server vmware-tools-nox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
linux-image-2.6.24-23-server vmware-open-vm-tools-common
vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.24-23-server vmware-open-vm-tools-nox vmware-tools-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.24-23-server vmware-open-vm-tools-common
vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.24-23-server vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-server
vmware-open-vm-tools-nox vmware-tools-common vmware-tools-nox
0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.0MB of archives. After unpacking 73.9MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? Y/n/? n
Abort.
root@server:~#

Hope this helps some of you out there using the OSP's.

Announcement: General Availability of VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) for Linux

Texiwill — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:39:39 GMT

Hello,

These tools work with u4 according to the document.

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GPG/RPM Problems with VMware Tools OSP for RHEL 5.3

Texiwill — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:47:40 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the VMware Tools OS-SPecific Packaging forum.

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Stop: 0x0000007b

RDPetruska — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:32:23 GMT

What VMware product and version are you using so we can move this thread to the appropriate forum?

Yes, you need to use Converter against the virtual machine once you have restored the Altiris image to the virtual disk.

Connect to perfmon failed using Capacity Planner v2.6.1

dcosta25 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:45:28 GMT

I'm trying to add a windows 2000 server to our capacity planner so we can capture it's data. I'm am receiving "connection to Remote Registry failed" & " connection to perfmon failed". I noticed using Zenmap that ports 136, 137, and 138 are not open. Are these ports use during the capacity planner's discovery? If so, how can you manually open these ports.

vmware tools for fc10 fail to compile some modules

tigerpaws — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:28:25 GMT

Thanks for the answer, but I'm already past that. I've used the binary installs on centos 5 without a problem, but in this case, vmware tools doesn't support the newer kernel yet. I was wondering if someone had a patch or something to get around this.

Mike

distributing vmware tools binaries

tigerpaws — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:25:12 GMT

As I said in another thread, I am running fc10 on esxi 3.5 u3.

Although some modules don't compile, some more important ones do, especially vmxnet and vmblock. My problem is that I don't have a compiler on all my systems, sometimes I need to install vmware tools where there is no compiler. Once I have compiled vmxnet and vmblock on one machine, what must I do to insert these compiled versions into the vmware tools installer so that it finds them when I install on another machine?

VMware Tools -So which command do believe? One says version 6 and the other says 3.0.2?

amittul — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:42:14 GMT

Hi ,

Please check the output of the commands

[# vmware-config-tools.pl -h

VMware Tools 3.0.2 build-52542 for Linux configurator

..# vmware-checkvm

VMware software version 6 (good)

So which command do beleive ? One says ver 6 and the other says 3.0.2 ?

Thanks,

VMTools Cross Virtual Hardware Compatibility

vh1too — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:06:15 GMT

Thanks for the quick response. It figured this was the right answer but thought i'd get anothers opinion before i go down the road of implementing it.

i can't install vmware tools in fedora 9

mrozzy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:13:15 GMT

i installed vmware tools rpm ..

but.. it doesn't work.

then i Extracted and installed vmware tools-6.0.0-45731.tar.gz

but there was a problem

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

and i downloaded (vmware-any-any-update117.tar.gz )

but.. i can't install (vmware-any-any-update117.tar.gz )

I am so tired

if there anysone knwo about that,pls do let me know.

best regard.

vmware-config-tools.pl doesn't work after installing vmi-enabled kernel in SUSE 10 SP 2

RDPetruska — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:55:21 GMT

What VMware product and version are you using?

You need the kernel-headers package which EXACTLY matches your running kernel - version AND type.