Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Another VMware question

[Kari M. <kar...@tr...>]

Marc wrote:
> Thank you all very much for the help I have received so far with running 
> DL as a guest in VMware ESX.

Glad to ear that.

> I noticed that the VMware-tools that come with DL are outdated. Will the 
> latest VMware-tools (for ESX 3) be available in new releases?

No. Those are proprietary.
On the other hand, the ones which are included, are from the free VMware 
Server. Latest for that is 1.04, which will eventually be part of DL.

> I tried doing a manual install, but ran into the issue that DL does not 
> have the gcc compiler required to compile the vmmemctl and some other 
> modules (vmxnet, etc).
> 
> Since VMware has given permission to include VMware-tools inside DL, 
> would it be possible to have the precompiled modules for different 
> versions of ESX available somewhere to download?

I understand only VMware Server Tools are permitted, no ESX.

Do not worry. The Tools included in DL work perfectly with ESX 2.5.x and 
3.x.x.

> Regards, /|/|arc.