If anyone else has run into this and found a solution, I'd love to hear about it. The OSPs from vmware won't work at all on SLES 10 SP3 x86_64, I have 14 vanilla installations that have just been done and are fully updated and have no other software installed on them at all; installing from the vmware repository results in a "transaction failure" error about 3/4 of the way through, and you get to fight with the 'nox' mouse and display driver rpms to get them to uninstall because the preuninst script exits 1.
Before I tried the OSP installation, I did try to build the tools. The tools run through the installation in what seems to be an OK fashion, all of the modules compile and I get the message that it "installed into the running kernel perfectly", but at the end of the installation, the Paravirtual SCSI module throws a failure and installation aborts (all modules build perfectly and all say they load into the kernel, this failure is at the point where it appears to be loading the modules/starting the vmware-tools services).
So, I'm stuck. OSP doesn't work on a totally out-of-the-box SLES 10 SP3 installation, and building them myself doesn't work either. Has anyone else hit this roadblock?
If it helps to know, these still have the E1000 driver and the LSI SCSI controller (they're pretty much default VMs created on ESXi 4.0).
