Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:57, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
>> On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>>>> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already,
>>>> assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to
>>>> install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via
>>>> open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon.
>>>>
>>>> Device Drivers  -->
>>>>  [*]   Misc devices  --->
>>>>    <M>     VMware Balloon Driver
>>>>  SCSI device support  --->
>>>>    [*]   SCSI low-level drivers  --->
>>>>      <*>     VMware PVSCSI driver support
>>>>  [*]   Network device support
>>>>    <M>     VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
>>>>
>>>> (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory
>>>> management between host&  guest).
>>
>>> So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod,
>>> too?
>>
>> Yes. And you'll need to add a few of those drivers to your
>> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or /etc/conf.d/modules (whichever you
>> have). Mine currently loads:
>>
>> vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync
>>
>>
>
> Ahhh, okay. Gotcha.
>
> Thanks for the clear explanation :-)
>

Hmmm... I've compiled VMXNET into the kernel, but can't get VMXNET to
perform; booting complained of inexistent network.

Adding e1000 into the kernel works though.

Could it be because the Cloud Provider has preconfigured my VMware
vSphere with non-VMXNET vNICs?

Or is there a 'trick' to activate VMXNET?

Haven't emerged open-vm-tools, though. Will that help in activating VMXNET?

Rgds,
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