A couple issues with open-vm-tools

[Joel W. <joe...@gi...>]

Greetings,

Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong mailing list. But I wanted to
talk to the horses mouth.

First off I need some clarification on if we should use the
open-vm-tools OR the proprietary versions that come with the CD.

I maintain several Linux servers CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu.  I am
currently using the vmware-tools-common-8.0.2-208167.el5 that is put in
the CentOS repository.

>From what it looks like the open tools vs the proprietary versions are
the same, modules that get loaded, where the RPM's were built etc.
Except they show up in VSphere as "Unmanaged" vs "OK".

Now granted, we would like to use the latest networking drivers etc. and
not have to "recompile" or run vmware-tools-upgrader every single time
we have a kernel update especially for several hundred servers.

Second, using the open-vm-tools on Ubuntu, when starting the server - I
receive this:
root@ubuntu:~# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart
Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:
done
   Unmounting HGFS shares:
done
   Guest filesystem driver:
done
   Guest memory manager:
done
   VM communication interface socket family:
done
   VM communication interface:
done
   Checking acpi hot plug
done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Switching to guest configuration:
done
   Paravirtual SCSI module:
failed
   Guest memory manager:
failed
   VM communication interface:
failed
   VM communication interface socket family:
failed
   Guest operating system daemon:
done


Any thoughts?




-- 

Joel Webb
Gilbarco Veeder-Root
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
joe...@gi...
336-404-3273


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