Re:

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

polloxx wrote:
> I've compiled open-vm-tools-2009.07.22-179896 on a Debian 5.0.2
> (Lenny) running kernel 2.6.26-2 as a ESX 3.5.0 VM and loaded the compiled
> modules.
> However the ESX server shows still VMware tools "not installed" for the VM.
> How can I solve this?

I seem to remember a bug in ESX 3.5 where it failed to correctly parse the
open-vm-tools version (TOOLS_VERSION_UNMANAGED). Could you try modifying it in
lib/include/vm_tools_version.h to say "(0x7fffffff - 1)" and see if that helps a
little?

I believe they included the fix in some update of ESX 3.5 (or VC, don't remember
exactly where the problem was), but I don't follow those updates very closely.

-- 
- Marcelo