Solaris 10 VM loses network after tools upgrade

[New_User_999]

I have a Solaris 10 VM and hit the following issue.

Solaris 10 after VMware-tools install and reboot:

Lost network device driver module:

Guest vmxnet fast network device:

Jan 14 07:37:23 mt-igl-t9 genunix: /kernel/d rv/amd64/vmxnet3s: undefined symbol

Jan 14 07:37:23 mt-igl-t9 genunix: 'mac_lso_get'

Jan 14 07:37:23 mt-igl-t9 genunix: WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'vmxnet 3s'

VMware Tools 10.0.0 build-3000743

VMware Tools 10.0.5 build-3227872

[upengan1978]

Hello

I am having same exact issues with Solaris 10, X86.

VMtools version is Vmware Tools daemon, version 9.10.5.49873 (build-2981885)

Thanks,

UG.

[omerfcolakoglu · Accepted solution]

Hello

I am having same exact issues with Solaris 10, X86

The problem was resolved by following the steps mentioned below.

Step-1

Re-Install Vmware tools VMware Tools 9.0.0 build-782409

Step-2

Reboot Server

Step-3

vmxnet and vmxnet3s files take backup

to solaris servers

root@solaristemp # cd /kernel/drv/amd64/

root@solaristemp # cp vmxnet vmxnetbck

root@solaristemp # cp vmxnet3s vmxnet3sbck

Step-4

Re-Install VMware Tools 10.0.0 build-3000743

Step-5

Reboot Server

Step-6

We copy the backup file instead we receive re version 10 deamon.

to solaris servers

root@solaristemp # cd /kernel/drv/amd64/

root@solaristemp # cp vmxnetbck vmxnet

root@solaristemp # cp vmxnet3sbck vmxnet3s

Step-7

You will find that VMware tools installed, but work on the Guest.

Step-8

root@solaristemp # /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

Step-9

Reboot Server

Once completed, we meet with no any problems.

Although not yet produce a legal solution we did not observe any other solution.

Thanks.

Best Regards.

[VishShah]

I have used these to carry out the test on my Lab environment

"Oracle Solaris 10 (SPARC)" (53e8b066f7f250ce2fd2cef063f8072b 2314731520: sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso)

Oracle Solaris 10 (x86) "" (aae1452bb3d56baa3dcb8866ce7e4a08 2254110720: sol-10-u11-ga-x86-dvd.iso) "" Images

As per the ESXi Host version "ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 BN : 3825889"

the available VMware Tools to Install on VMware Guest, failed to install VMware Tools with an error : "VMware Tools build 3560309 for Linux will not install on the operating system you are running. Please be sure you install the version of VMware Tools that is appropriate for your operating system."

WE suspected that Series of VMware Tools, it cannot be possible or it's hard to believe that all the VMware Tools version starting from 10.0.0 could not rely with the Solaris Guest OS.

# Column 1: Tools version on NGC/VI Client

# Column 2: ESXi server version.'esx/0.0' indicates that the tools version

# Column 3: Tools version on guest Setup/About page

# Column 4: ESXi server build number

10272 esx/6.5 10.1.0 4449150

10252 esx/6.5 10.0.12 4448496

10249 esx/5.5p09 10.0.9 4345813

10249 esx/6.0p03 10.0.9 4192238

10249 esx/5.5p08 10.0.9 4179633

10248 esx/0.0 10.0.8

10246 esx/6.0u2 10.0.6 3620759

10245 esx/0.0 10.0.5

10240 esx/6.0ep05 10.0.0 3566359

10240 esx/6.0p02 10.0.0 3380124

10240 esx/5.5p07 10.0.0 3248547

10240 esx/5.5ep10 10.0.0 3565700

10240 esx/5.5ep09 10.0.0 3343343

It's pretty clear that Solaris Guest OS has issues, keeping the VMware Tools running, If end customer does not have support with Guest OS Vendor, we cannot go beyond our efforts let him ask to settle with old version of VMware Tools

- Which VMware tools version is supported by Solaris 10 U8 or Solaris 11, note that I understand the VM can use the Tools 9.0.

VMware does support guest OS, we do not have such documentation for the same support of VMware Tools and compatibility.

- If the release notes of the new VMware Tools 10.0.12/10.1.0 (will be released on 25/Oct/2016) indicate this issue can be fixed?

I have never mentioned that this issue is with VMware Tools, it was my advise to Test with newer version of VMware Tools.

- The provided URL for OSPs is a correct URL as no OSP for Solaris VMs is provided, https://www.vmware.com/support/packages.html

No specific Guest OS Tools provided by Solaris, except Supported guest operating systems Lists are

Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS) 4.0 through 6.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 through 6.x

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 through 11

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 through 11

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 through 12.04

For Solaris it's the same we need to use as provided by ESXi Host .

Finally issue is fixed by installing VMware Tools 10.1.0 & and 10.0.12 URL _ http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/introducing-vmware-tools-10-1-10-0-12.html

Warm Regards

Vishwajit Shah

Senior Technical Support Engineer – VMware Inc.

Solaris 10 VM loses network after tools upgrade‌