Re:

[polloxx <po...@gm...>]

That did not help Marcelo.


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Marcelo Vanzin<mv...@vm...> wrote:
> 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
>
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