Zeron

I have a new version for beta-12a that will install from the .plg file without the hangs some people where seeing here: http://unraid.zeron.ca/plugins/open-vm-tools/open_vm_tools-2011.08.21.471295_unRaid5.0beta12a-i686-3Zeron.plg Can some of you give it a try and report back if it install correctly?

Fixed. Must have dropped the server part of the link when I copy / pasted it.

Update to open-vm-tools v. 2011.08.21.471295 fro beta12/12a Should have a .plg version again in the next few days.

The motherboard I tried it on had Intel Q45 and G43 chipsets. The one it worked on was a HP AMD based system.

If you get the failed to initialize pal message, you will have to do the flash using a motherboard with a different chipset. I had the same problem. LSI documents the issue here: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15807.aspx and here: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16266.aspx I had the same problem on my Intel server board, but it worked fin on the third PC I tired it in.

Double confirm, something causes the "upgradepkg" script to die (i.e <defunct>) You can telnet into the box and kill the process and the rest of the system comes up. All the vmtools is installed, so I am not quite sure what the issue is. Perhaps there are some remnants from a previous vmtools package? I have seen this on one of my test machines as well. If you run the upgradepkg command manually it works just fine, but when the plugin installer runs it, it hangs up. I think that it is because the install script in the .tgz file backgrounds the vmtoolsd process. Unfortunately I have been sent to one of our foreign offices and will not have access to my devel server until the middle of next week. For now, just drop the .tgz file in /extras on the USB stick and it will load up correctly. I will remove the .plg file from the first post.

It should work on esxi 5 just fine - pretty sure some posted that they were using it on this forum somewhere. I have not tested it myself yet as I am currently 8,000miles from my servers.

Beta-12 version is now available.

Paramaters are in $argv[1] I use thise code to make it look like the standard $_REQUEST[] array you see in normal php. parse_str($argv[1], $_REQUEST); $var = parse_ini_file( "/var/local/emhttp/var.ini", TRUE), You can create your own .ini file in you addon directory and use parse_ini_file

A version for beta-11 has been added.

No, there is no extra requirements for nano. I just install the Slackware 13.1 package from here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/slackware-13.1/slackware/ap/nano-2.2.4-i486-1.txz

I highlighted the ones i had installed, the rest I did not have. Thanks for sharing, I will add them (is perl really needed?). Learning here, why would you need the linux 2.6.39.2 tar? if the that is what Tom already installed? and how does one merge them? Yes; linux-2.6.39.3.tar.gz is needed. We need to have the kernel sources for open-vm-tools to compile. Some of those packages are not required - don't think you really need perl. I just have it because I use the same script to install packages to compile a few things. You do need to add pkgtools, pkg-config and libdnet for open-vm-tools. I will experiment when I have some time to see what packages from that list can be removed. once you get everything in place you can compile open-vm-tools using this configure command: ./configure \ --enable-static \ --disable-multimon \ --disable-unity \ --disable-docs \ --disable-tests \ --without-gtk2 \ --without-gtkmm \ --without-x \ --without-pam \ --without-icu \ --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \ --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu

Both the reboot event and shutdown event call the same script: /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/poweroff-vm-default.d/01-halt I have not found how to get the reboot event to call a different one, or found a way to detect that the event is reboot instead of shutdown. I install the following packages on my development VM in order to do the build (for v. 5.0beta-10): binutils-2.20.51.0.8-i486-1.txz cpio-2.9-i486-2.txz cxxlibs-6.0.13-i486-2.txz gcc-4.4.4-i486-1.txz glib2-2.22.5-i486-1.txz glibc-2.11.1-i486-3.txz kernel-headers-2.6.33.4_smp-x86-1.txz make-3.81-i486-1.txz nano-2.2.4-i486-1.txz ncurses-5.7-i486-1.txz patch-2.5.4-i486-1.txz perl-5.10.1-i486-1.txz pkg-config-0.23-i486-2.txz pkgtools-13.1-noarch-1.tgz libdnet-1.11-i486-5sl.txz linux-2.6.39.3.tar.gz open-vm-tools-2011.07.19-450511.tar.gz I compile the kernel using the files from /usr/src/linux-2.6.39.3-unRAID/ merged with the files from linux-2.6.39.3.tar.gz Then open-vm-tools can be compiled.

Yes - just remove the version for 4.7 and put the 5.0Beta on in it's place. Just make sure to remove the 4.7 one before you upgrade - you do not want it to load under V.5

open-vm-tools-2011.07.19-450511-unRaid50beta10-dan1.tgz Added. Will post an update to open-vm-tools-2011.07.19-450511 for 4.7 soon.

Happens to Win 7 and Vista every time you upgrade unRAID. A simple reboot of the windows machine and all will be well.

Updated to open-vm-tools-2011.06.27-437995 for 5.0Beta

I've had that happen o a Win7 client with my test array when I upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0b3 then to b4, b5, b6 and b6a. A reboot of the client has always fixed it though.

Updated packages for 5.0b7 added.

Using plpcfgbt and plpbt-createiso you can create a .iso file that is configured to boot directly to the USB. That is how mine works.

1) Yes 2) I prefer VMDirectPath for pass the Controller Card though. 3) It is simple, when you have the right mix of hardware. With the motherboard I have (Intel DQ45CB) I found a few cards did not pass. I currently pass 3 JMB362's 4) Spindown and temp reading work perfectly on controllers passed via VMDirectPath

"Unmanaged" is a valid state for VMware Tools, and indicates that some mechanism other than the classic VMware Tools "interactive/scriptable" installer engine is responsible for keeping the tools components "up to date". see here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1451706#1451706

Update for open-vm-tools for unRAID 5.0beta: open-vm-tools update to version 2011.04.25-402641 VMTools page added to the web interface that allows you to enable the host time-sync and mounting of shared folders.

Sounds like the problem I had with it. (One 2 servers now): http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11540.msg109792#msg109792

Version for 4.7 added.