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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote: |
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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, |
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>> 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 (whichever you |
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> have). Mine currently loads: |
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> vmxnet3 vmw_balloon fuse vsock vmblock vmsync |
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Ahhh, okay. Gotcha. |
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Thanks for the clear explanation :-) |
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Pandu E Poluan |
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