Zeron

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    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, uldise said:

    i'm wondering why you can get pre-compiled version from Slackware build.. i can install open-vm-tools for Ubuntu for example simple by downloading  deb file.. and i have not to reinstall it with every kernel update..

    am i missing something?

    BTW, thank you for your time taken to us with this plugin! 

     

    Any precompiled version will not be able to do a clean shutdown of unRAID.  The shutdown routine in open-vm-tools has to be patched to make that happen.

     

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted · Edited by Zeron

    I have the same bond0 error that StevenD has.  It's not actually a network error, but it is not loading a driver for storage device and therefore is not able to read anything fro the USB.

     

    So far two people have asked fro the scripts I used for 6.3 - hopefully one of them will have better luck getting this working.

     

    It is not a simple task to build this plugin.  Every time the unRAID kernel is changed, you have to create new patches to get open-vm-tools to work with the new kernel version.  This is also why I never build for beta and RC's as it would take me a full 8-10 hour day to get it building again.

     

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, ZataH said:

    Any news on update for 6.4?

     

    I no longer use unRaid under ESXi.

     

    I had tried setting up a development VM, but was not able to get 6.4 to boot correctly.

     

    If anyone else wants to take on building this, they can send me a message to get a copy of my build scripts.

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    On 6/7/2017 at 9:26 AM, clowrym said:

    Is it possible to have VM's set up & have the VPN working for Network access as well? Currently if I run my VM's with a network bridge, I get no eccess to the rest of my network, only the unraid box I VPN to?

     

    Probably, but this is not dependent on open-vm-tools.  Perhaps you should ask in a VMWare forum.

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    On 6/2/2017 at 1:50 PM, DeeGee said:

     

    I can't get this to work, but I'm unsure if its me as a new user doing something wrong?

    This is the log when I try to install using the URL in the first post:

      

    
plugin: installing: http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/openVMTools.plg
plugin: downloading http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/openVMTools.plg
plugin: downloading: http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/openVMTools.plg ... done
plugin: downloading: http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/open_vm_tools-10.1.0.4449150-K4.9.30_unRaid-x86_64-26Zeron.tgz ... failed (Invalid URL / Server error response)
plugin: wget: http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/open_vm_tools-10.1.0.4449150-K4.9.30_unRaid-x86_64-26Zeron.tgz download failure (Invalid URL / Server error response)

     

    The file is on the server and the logs show several hundred downloads since it was released.

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    There's a bug with your plugin zeron. When I updated and while still on kernel 4.1.18 it didn't install right. Here's the offending line:

     

    elif [ "4.4.15" == "4.1.18" ]; then

     

    Un-escaped $ in the build script.

     

    Should be fixed now.

    Open VM Tools for unRAID 6

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    Howdy,

     

    Seems after the latest update to 6.1.7, my ESXi reports VM Tools as installed but not running, do we need a new version?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Mark

     

    A new version on VMtools is needed every time the kernel is updated in unRAID.  So, yes.

     

    Currently building an updated version.  Should be uploaded in a few hours.