For those of you that might be interested in installing and giving Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.1 a try on VMware vMA, you may run into an issue with the following:


Here is the procedure on remediating the issue and getting VDDK 1.1 installed

1. Download VDDK 1.1 ( VMware-vix-disklib-1.1.0-163495.x86_64.tar.gz ) and upload to your vMA host

2. Extract the contents

tar -zxvf VMware-vix-disklib-1.1.0-163495.x86_64.tar.gz

3. Download libfuse.so.2 rpm package for RHEL 5 (http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/9551023/com/libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm.html) and upload to your vMA host. You can actually do this in one step using curl found on vMA:

curl -O ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.pramberger.at/systems/linux/contrib/rhel5/x86_64/libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm

4. Install the rpm dependancy

[vi-admin@inTheGhetto ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm
warning: libfuse-2.7.4-1.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6971f6ac
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:libfuse                ########################################### [100%]

5. cd into VDDK 1.1 extracted directory

cd vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/

6. Install VDDK 1.1 and accept the EULA and default installation in /usr

[vi-admin@inTheGhetto vmware-vix-disklib-distrib]$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Now both vmware-mount and vmware-vdiskmanager will work without complaining about the missing libfuse.so.2

I would hope in the future that all side toolkits/products will be compatible with vMA without any additional research/package dependency. I disklike the fact that users must go out to the net to find patches/packages to satisfy a VMware product installation. I know that vApp's produced by VMware are highly customized to fit a specific need and I prefer that all dependency's are covered without having end-users potentially download unsupported/unknown packages onto these vApps.

It would also be awesome to include with vMA: VMware VIX, VDDK, etc.

=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
vGhetto Script Repository
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
http://twitter.com/lamw



If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".