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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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--Mike |
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