Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:58, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
> On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>> Hello, list!
>>>
>>> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search,
>>> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely:
>>>
>>> * vmware-tools
>>>
>>> * open-vm-tools
>>>
>>> * open-vm-tools-kmod
>>>
>>> What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use
>>> VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET?
>>
>> As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of
>> vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both
>> of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling
>> reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go
>> with the open-vm-tools one.
>
> Teach me to read more carefully...
>
> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already,
> assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to
> install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via
> open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the user-space daemon.
>
> Device Drivers  -->
>  [*]   Misc devices  --->
>    <M>   VMware Balloon Driver
>  SCSI device support  --->
>    [*]   SCSI low-level drivers  --->
>      <*>   VMware PVSCSI driver support
>  [*]   Network device support
>    <M>   VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
>
> (That first one is the vmmemctl driver, which helps improve the memory
> management between host & guest).
>
> --Mike

d`oh~~ ... count me in among those who can't read properly >.<

So, I should emerge open-vm-tools and it shall pull in open-vm-tools-kmod, too?

Rgds,
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