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Re: /dev/watchdog

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Monday, September 16, 2013 02:09:43 PM John Schmitt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > VMware platform does not currently implement hardware watchdog device so
> > you will need to enable software watchdog in the kernel if you want to
> > use /dev/watchdog.
> 
> I did not know about that.  Thank you for telling me, this will probably
> help me out.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchdog/

I am not sure about that project, I meant enabling SOFT_WATCHDOG option in the 
kernel tree under drivers/watchdog.

Thanks,
Dmitry

Re: /dev/watchdog

[John S. <mar...@gm...>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:45:02AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> VMware platform does not currently implement hardware watchdog device so you 
> will need to enable software watchdog in the kernel if you want to use 
> /dev/watchdog.

I did not know about that.  Thank you for telling me, this will probably help me out.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchdog/

John

Re: /dev/watchdog

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi John,

VMware platform does not currently implement hardware watchdog device so you 
will need to enable software watchdog in the kernel if you want to use 
/dev/watchdog.

Thanks,
Dmitry

On Monday, September 16, 2013 01:21:44 AM John Schmitt wrote:
> What do I have to do to my VMs running Fedora 19 kernel 3.9 or 3.10 to get
> /dev/watchdog working?
> 
> For reference, see these bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007607
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007745
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
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/dev/watchdog

[John S. <mar...@gm...>]

What do I have to do to my VMs running Fedora 19 kernel 3.9 or 3.10 to get /dev/watchdog working?

For reference, see these bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007607
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007745

Thanks for your help.

John

Re: multi touch?

[Mendez, M. <mm...@sr...>]

Yes, I misunderstood what open-vm-tools was. Thanks.

Ravindra Kumar <rav...@vm...> wrote:


> 2. Multi-touch feature does not depend on VMware Tools/open-vm-tools, it uses standard drivers available in the guest.

Given that this feature is not tied to open-vm-tools, I would recommend to contact Workstation community forum like http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/workstation for authoritative information on this topic.

-Ravindra

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Re: multi touch?

[Ravindra K. <rav...@vm...>]

> 2. Multi-touch feature does not depend on VMware Tools/open-vm-tools, it uses standard drivers available in the guest.

Given that this feature is not tied to open-vm-tools, I would recommend to contact Workstation community forum like http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/workstation for authoritative information on this topic.

-Ravindra

Re: multi touch?

[Ravindra K. <rav...@vm...>]

> Does open-vm-tools support multi-touch as seen in VMware Workstaion 9?

open-vm-tools is irrelevant to this question for two reasons:

1. Multi-touch feature in Workstation 9 is limited to Windows 8, not available on Linux.
2. Multi-touch feature does not depend on VMware Tools/open-vm-tools, it uses standard drivers available in the guest.

- Ravindra

multi touch?

[Manuel M. <mm...@sr...>]

Does open-vm-tools support multi-touch as seen in VMware Workstaion 9?

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Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 05:24:27PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> The 'glib2-devel' clue was most helpful; 'configure' now completes,
> and a build is churning.  For now. :)

And I hit the same (first) error that was reported last fall:

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3570540&group_id=204462&atid=989708

That was fun. :/

I'll hop onto the developer list, to see who may have advice...

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Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:40:39PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I do not think we tried CentOS 5.8 specifically, but the errors you have look 
> as if you did not devel packages installed on the box you are trying to build.
> For example CentOS 5 has glib2 package at 2.12 so if you install glib2-devel 
> it should satisfy glib >= 2.6.0 requirement. Same goes for the kernel, RHEL5 
> and CentOS 5 are are 2.6.18 + truckload of changes.

The 'glib2-devel' clue was most helpful; 'configure' now completes,
and a build is churning.  For now. :)

> Thanks,
> Dmitry

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Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 05:09:22 PM Brian Reichert wrote:
> > Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the
> > open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8?  Or any non-too-bleeding-edge
> > Fedora Core distro?
> 
> CentOS 5.8 was announced on 3/7/2012.  I can't find any of these
> releases of open-vm-tools that will build out of the box; they all
> fail in the 'config' stage.
> 
> On a lark, I've tried building each of
> 
>   open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-8.6.5-621624
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-8.8.2-590212
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-9.0.0-782409
>     Kernels prior to 2.6.9 are not supported in this release of
> open-vm-tools.
> 
> I'm curious what distros these releases were tested on...

I do not think we tried CentOS 5.8 specifically, but the errors you have look 
as if you did not devel packages installed on the box you are trying to build.
For example CentOS 5 has glib2 package at 2.12 so if you install glib2-devel 
it should satisfy glib >= 2.6.0 requirement. Same goes for the kernel, RHEL5 
and CentOS 5 are are 2.6.18 + truckload of changes.

Thanks,
Dmitry

Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

> Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the
> open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8?  Or any non-too-bleeding-edge
> Fedora Core distro?

CentOS 5.8 was announced on 3/7/2012.  I can't find any of these
releases of open-vm-tools that will build out of the box; they all
fail in the 'config' stage.

On a lark, I've tried building each of

  open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024
    configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
  open-vm-tools-8.6.5-621624
    configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
  open-vm-tools-8.8.2-590212
    configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
  open-vm-tools-9.0.0-782409
    Kernels prior to 2.6.9 are not supported in this release of open-vm-tools.

I'm curious what distros these releases were tested on...

If this is _not_ an appropriate forum for pursuing this topic,
please let me know...


> > Thanks,
> > Dnmitry
> 
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Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I know it is very confusing, but vmware-open-vm-tools-* packages that reside 
> on http://packages.vmware.com/ are not open-vm-tools packages, they are for 
> proprietary version of VMware Tools, matching one shipped with the product 
> (AKA the TAR installer). We do not distribute (nor do we have) the source RPMs 
> for them as they are built in a different fashion.
> 
> The name was chosen very poorly indeed and was corrected in 5.0 and later 
> releases.

Well, that does explain that. :/

Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the
open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8?  Or any non-too-bleeding-edge
Fedora Core distro?

> Thanks,
> Dnmitry

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Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi Brian,

I know it is very confusing, but vmware-open-vm-tools-* packages that reside 
on http://packages.vmware.com/ are not open-vm-tools packages, they are for 
proprietary version of VMware Tools, matching one shipped with the product 
(AKA the TAR installer). We do not distribute (nor do we have) the source RPMs 
for them as they are built in a different fashion.

The name was chosen very poorly indeed and was corrected in 5.0 and later 
releases.

Thanks,
Dnmitry

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 03:54:22 PM Brian Reichert wrote:
> I'm trying to find RPMs for CentOS 5.8 (using a PAE kernel) _and
> the corresponding source_ of these RPMs:
> 
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-common
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod
> 
> The latest versions of the RPMs seems to be here:
> 
>   http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/i686
> 
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm
> 
> For the latter (kmod) I can find the source RPM:
> 
>   http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/SRPMS/
> 
> But I can't find the source RPM for vmware-open-vm-tools-common.
> 
> >From the Sourceforge site's download links, I can't find 8.3.7.
> 
> (If I look at the developer snapshots, I can see changelist numbers
> that span 784891, but I'm not in the mood to guess at the differences.)
> 
> I'm willing to roll my own RPMs, if someone can provide an applicable
> SPEC file.  Is there an offical one?

source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

I'm trying to find RPMs for CentOS 5.8 (using a PAE kernel) _and
the corresponding source_ of these RPMs:

  vmware-open-vm-tools-common
  vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod

The latest versions of the RPMs seems to be here:

  http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/i686

  vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm
  vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm

For the latter (kmod) I can find the source RPM:

  http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/SRPMS/

But I can't find the source RPM for vmware-open-vm-tools-common.

>From the Sourceforge site's download links, I can't find 8.3.7.
(If I look at the developer snapshots, I can see changelist numbers
that span 784891, but I'm not in the mood to guess at the differences.)

I'm willing to roll my own RPMs, if someone can provide an applicable
SPEC file.  Is there an offical one?

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Re: High Memory usage of vmtoolsd

[Simon B. <sbo...@gm...>]

Hi,

The following is the information of the box.

The box is a custom build with busybox version busybox-1.20.1 glibc version
2.9

Regards

Simon


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Jim Stalewski
<JSt...@vi...>wrote:

> **
> Simon,
>
> What is the OS/version of the guest that's having the memory leak problem?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Simon Bonello [mailto:sbo...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:30 AM
> *To:* ope...@li...
> *Subject:* High Memory usage of vmtoolsd
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a application which is polling data from a vm using vmware tools.
> The vmtoolsd is constantly increasing in memory until the guest os goes out
> of memory.
>
> Version of tools I am using is
>
> open-vm-tools 2012.10.14 <http://mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29989437>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
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RE: High Memory usage of vmtoolsd

[Jim S. <JSt...@Vi...>]

Simon,  
 
What is the OS/version of the guest that's having the memory leak
problem?


________________________________

	From: Simon Bonello [mailto:sbo...@gm...] 
	Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:30 AM
	To: ope...@li...
	Subject: High Memory usage of vmtoolsd
	
	
	Hi All,
	
	I have a application which is polling data from a vm using
vmware tools. The vmtoolsd is constantly increasing in memory until the
guest os goes out of memory.
	
	Version of tools I am using is
	
	open-vm-tools 2012.10.14
	
	
	Regards
	
	Simon
	




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High Memory usage of vmtoolsd

[Simon B. <sbo...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I have a application which is polling data from a vm using vmware tools.
The vmtoolsd is constantly increasing in memory until the guest os goes out
of memory.

Version of tools I am using is

open-vm-tools 2012.10.14 </mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29989437>


Regards

Simon

file corruption running eCryptfs on top of vmhgfs

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi,

I am trying to run an eCryptfs volume on top of a vmhgfs and I run into problems: when writing to this stack with high bandwidth (copying many large files to it), there is a pretty good chance of data corruption. The persistent store contains data different from what has actually been written. The files have the correct size, but the content is wrong.

I have to make some more experiments to find out the exact circumstances. But it appears to work fine on my system, when copying directly to vmhgfs or when copying to an eCryptfs not running on vmhgfs. After some initial tests, it looks like the combination of eCryptfs and vmhgfs does not work, although the individual components do work.

I will try to have a look at the code to figure out what code paths in vmhgfs are triggered by eCryptfs. My first guess is that vmhgfs makes some hidden assumption that holds when using it through the system call interface directly, but that does not hold when the client is eCryptfs.

Do you have any suggestions where I should look? Do you have any ideas what could be going wrong here?

Michael

some basic questions

[Lentes, B. <ber...@he...>]

Hi,

i'm new to open vm tools. I'd like to install them on a SLES 11 SP2 (kernel 3.0.34-0.7-pae), running on a VM Server 1.09.

- do the open vm tools support DKMS ? Or do i have to build manually the modules every time i install a kernel patch ?
- Is there a problem in the combination open vmware tools 8.8.2-590212 and VMWare Server 1.09 ?

thanks for any answer.


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Re: how to install as commandline app

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:45:20 PM eMyListsDDg wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> i dl'd your open-vm-tools ver 8.6.0. i'm attempting to install on fedora 16
> 86_64 using xfce desktop. ok, so seems like *lots* of
> packages/devel-packages need to be dl'd. Host OS is windows server 2003
> with vm server 2.0.2
> 
> even with yum package manager too time consuming with so many missing
> packages for my xfce virtural machine. not your fault just i use xfce.
> 
> 
> q1. how to install without all these (i assume desktop required libs) extra
> libs? is there some general command line opts to issue so i can get this
> installed and running?

You can examine options presented by ./configure --help and disable 
functionality you deem unimportant.

> 
> q2. any functionality lost installing as a commanlind line app?

Yes, you lose desktop integration (automatic screen resize, cut-and-paste, 
drag-and-drop, etc).

You can also try using the version of VMwareTools that comes with the product 
and see if it works better for you.

Thanks,
Dmitry 

how to install as commandline app

[eMyListsDDg <emy...@gm...>]

Hallo,

i dl'd your open-vm-tools ver 8.6.0. i'm attempting to install on fedora 16 86_64 using xfce desktop. ok, so seems like *lots* of packages/devel-packages need to be dl'd. Host OS is windows server 2003 with vm server 2.0.2

even with yum package manager too time consuming with so many missing packages for my xfce virtural machine. not your fault just i use xfce.


q1. how to install without all these (i assume desktop required libs) extra libs? is there some general command line opts to issue so i can get this installed and running?

q2. any functionality lost installing as a commanlind line app?



  

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Re: Greetings / Questions about open-vm-tools and VMware tools. / Peter

[Dick V. <di...@ti...>]

On 16 February 2012 12:15, Piotrek P <to....@gm...> wrote:

> - What kind of packages are need to install VMware Tools/vm-open-tools
> (have you checked dependies)?

I'm on Ubuntu and I always install build-essential:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/build-essential

After this makes the compile step finds the right stuff...

Dick

High CPU usage vmware-user when freenx session started

[Puyal T. N. <np...@va...>]

Good afternoon

I have just installed a FreeNX Server on a Virtualized 32bit Ubuntu Desktop.
When a remote session is opened the vmware-user process created by the NX
login consume almost 100% CPU:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/freenxvmwareuserhighcpu.png/

I would appreciate some help in order to debug why this happens and how to
solve it. 

Good afternoon

Greetings / Questions about open-vm-tools and VMware tools. / Peter

[Piotrek P <to....@gm...>]

Dear All,
I would like to ask you about few things. First of all I need to
admit, that I'm not a profesionalist when talking about linux systems.
I have some experience gathered for over ten years, but I have never
used linux as main OS for our servers. On VMware community I have
participate in series of thread about installing VMware Tools in
supported/unsupported linux distributions. Unfortunately VMware cannot
give us offical statements about VMware Tools.

I am working with VMware software already for some time [walked
throught VMware Player, VMware Server 2.0, Workstation 6.5, 7, 8
(using it all the time), ESX3.5, 4.0, i4.1 (using it all the time)].
We are using Debian distribution for our NAT/Compression purposes. For
each of VMware products I spotted that different versions of VMware
tools are installed. I think that it is normal but case is more
complicated if we are dealing with for example Debian 6.0 on ESX3.5,
4.0, i4.1 - this version of Debian is officialy unsupported.

Of course it is working, even without VMware Tools. Debian 6.0 Squeeze
as minimal installation is failproof in my opinion. Problem accurs
when trying to install VMware Tools on it. In fact the installation is
ended with success, but compiling additional modules generates
problems.

On ESX3.5 with Debian 6.0 virtual machine (VM) on it, first thing we
can meet while installing VMware Tools is lack of few needed packages.
I made lot of tests, installed Debian 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 thousand times and
right now I know that in order to install VMware tools on it (Debian
6.0) I need: linux-headers-`uname -r`, gcc-4.3, psmisc (for killall
binary), binutils, make. Also there is possibility to create symlink
ln –sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc in order to skip entering path to
/usr/bin/gcc-4.3 after invoking ./vmware-config.pl.

Strange situation occurs when we trying to install VMware Tools on
Debian 6.0 in Workstation 8. While trying to enter path to
/usr/bin/gcc-4.3 after invoking ./vmware-config.pl even if we enter
it, VMware Tools cannot find gcc under that path. In order to do that
we need to install aditional package named libglib2.0. Funny thing is
that, we don't have to do this on ESX3.5 (installing libglib2.0) and
also, we are ABLE to enter this /usb/bin/gcc-4.3 path. Both situations
can be reconstructed each time on minimal Debian 6.0 installation
(system is installed from official netinstal .iso).

After we install VMware Tools on Debian 6.0 Squeeze on ESXi4.1
(without any problems), when starting VM, we can see errors about
UDEV. I have found lot of solutions for this problem but even that
could you tell me how is possible that VMware Tools are changing
something in system and invoking problem with UDEV?

What I would like to ask:

- What are in fact VMware Tools?
- Why versions and build of VMware Tools is changed in every version
of VMware products? (There is other version for VMware Player,
Workstation, ESX3.5, 4.0 etc.).
- Are the tools compatibility backward? (Can I install VMware tools
from ESX5.0 for Debian 6.0 on ESX3.5?)
- I have read on open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net that stable version of
open-vm-tools are based on Workstation 7 - Does it means basics
"engine" functionality of VMware Tools is independent of guest
system/ESX/Player/Workstation/Etc.?
- What VMware is changing in their tools on each new version of tools?
(Is the new functionallity added to new version but tools are still
compatible backward?)
- What kind of packages are need to install VMware Tools/vm-open-tools
(have you checked dependies)?
- What are differences between VMware Tools and vm-open tools?

I haven't found answers for that questions. As you are developers of
vm-open-tools, I would be glad to ask people who know what are doing.
I have opportunity to test vm-open-tools on our virtual environments
but first I would like to know theory and your opinion. Many thanks in
advance for answering and apologize for my lack of english language
skills.

Best regards,
Peter P.