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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:12:54
Message-Id: 4D946F51.7060002@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU? by Pandu Poluan
1 On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
2
3 >> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already,
4 >> assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to
5 >> install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via
6 >> open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon.
7 >>
8 >> Device Drivers -->
9 >> [*] Misc devices --->
10 >> <M> VMware Balloon Driver
11 >> SCSI device support --->
12 >> [*] SCSI low-level drivers --->
13 >> <*> VMware PVSCSI driver support
14 >> [*] Network device support
15 >> <M> VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
16 >>
17 >> (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory
18 >> management between host& guest).
19
20 > So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, too?
21
22 Yes. And you'll need to add a few of those drivers to your
23 /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 or /etc/conf.d/modules
24 (whichever you have). Mine currently loads:
25
26 vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync

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Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU? Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>