open-vm-tools-discuss

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?

-- 
Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large	

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?

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

-- 
Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large	

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
> 
> -- 
> Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
> BSD admin/developer at large	

-- 
Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large	

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...>]

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

-- 
Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large	

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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Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large