Re: cross compiling vmtools and installing?

[Ryan B. <rbe...@vm...>]

On 06/09/2010 02:02 PM, Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
>
> procps is used to collect information about processes and their resource usage.
> I'm not really sure what features currently use that information.
>

procps is used to extract guest memory statistics, which the Tools then publish 
(ultimately) to the vmkernel on vSphere 4.  Said stats are used in 
debugging/support instrumentation and may influence VMK memory management decisions.

It doesn't provide anything useful to customers running under Workstation or Fusion.

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