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On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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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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> So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, too? |
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Yes. And you'll need to add a few of those drivers to your |
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/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or /etc/conf.d/modules |
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(whichever you have). Mine currently loads: |
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vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync |