Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

[Tanstaafl]

On 2014-01-16 4:35 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 16-Jan-14 22:17, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both
>> manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and I've set up
>> my APC ups to shutdown the host and all VMs, again all working. If
>> you're interested in the howtos for the APC shutdown I think I have a
>> bookmark around somewhere.
>
> BTW if all you want is safe shutdown, it can be done even without
> vm-tools (which I personally do not like at all). In vSphere-client
> I have "suspend" instead of shutdown (current state with memory
> snapshot is saved), from ESXi you'd have to play a little with
> /sbin/shutdown.sh script (i.e. with ssh/keys to log into all VM
> and shut them down),

No desire to use this - my only concern is safe shutdown of gentoo 
guests (other VMs are Windows Servers that can natively be safely shut 
down).

> and for power-interruption you can use NUT (which I find better than
> apcupsd or PowerChute, because there is native NUT-client for
> ESXi)...

Excellent. Is there any kind of docs on getting this working on both the 
host and the gentoo VMs?

> apart from apcupsd you can use NUT (which I find better, there is
> native ESXi-client).

I'm VERY interested in this option, Jarry...

One major reason is open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled in the 
kernel, and .

But... does NUT require modules? Or can I just compile in whatever I 
need? I generally have always run my servers without modules enabled (I 
know that open-vm-tools requires modules to be enabled), for security 
purposes (one less thing to worry about).

I know that NUT has full support for my UPS's (Powerware 9125's), so I'm 
hoping modules are not required. Even if they are, I'd still rather use 
NUT than the open-vm-tools.

I would appreciate any doc pointers, or other additional information, if 
you are so inclined.

Thanks!!