Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> > It looks like we might be buying ESX at work.  I'm running the
>> > evaluation now to check it out.  I'm leaning toward 3i.
>>
>> If you're running newer Linux kernels as VMs, make sure the version
>> supports VMI. This will help you a lot.
>
> Is there an easy way to tell?

No, but they will for sure list it in the features.
They may either call it VMI or Paravirtualization support.

>> > ERROR
>> > /data/build/scripts/vmmemctl build failed
>> > check log file /data/build/tmp/LOGS/build/vmmemctl for details
>> > root:/data/build#
>> >
>> > Help?  :-)
>>
>> De-Select VMWare and select open-vm-tools in menuconfig. ;-)
>
> root:/data/build# grep VM scripts/configuration/profiles/default
> CONFIG_LVM2=y
> CONFIG_VMWARE=y
> root:/data/build#
>
>
> Maybe we should change the default config too?  :-)
> (yes, I'll do it ...)  ;-)

Good idea, why don't you go ahead and do it? ;-)

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
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