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On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> Hello, list! |
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>> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, |
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>> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: |
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>> * vmware-tools |
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>> * open-vm-tools |
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>> * open-vm-tools-kmod |
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>> What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use |
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>> VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? |
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> As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of |
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> vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both |
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> of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling |
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> reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go |
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> with the open-vm-tools one. |
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Teach me to read more carefully... |
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The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, |
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assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to |
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install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via |
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open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon. |
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Device Drivers --> |
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[*] Misc devices ---> |
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<M> VMware Balloon Driver |
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SCSI device support ---> |
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[*] SCSI low-level drivers ---> |
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<*> VMware PVSCSI driver support |
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[*] Network device support |
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<M> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver |
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(That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory |
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management between host & guest). |
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--Mike |