prostuff1 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Anyone tried the latest plugin with RC13 yet? John RC13 is using a completely different kernel so Zeron (or someone else) is going to have to build a new VMWare tools plugin. Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 Anyone tried the latest plugin with RC13 yet? John RC13 is using a completely different kernel so Zeron (or someone else) is going to have to build a new VMWare tools plugin. The version of open-vm-tools I was using does not compile against kernel 3.9.3 unfortunately neither does the current open-vm-tools release. I do not have a lot of time available to work on this so it will be a few days before I can have a new plugin available for unRaid 5.0rc13 Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Anyone tried the latest plugin with RC13 yet? John RC13 is using a completely different kernel so Zeron (or someone else) is going to have to build a new VMWare tools plugin. The version of open-vm-tools I was using does not compile against kernel 3.9.3 unfortunately neither does the current open-vm-tools release. I do not have a lot of time available to work on this so it will be a few days before I can have a new plugin available for unRaid 5.0rc13 Weird, because the package for 12a is showing as running in both the vSphere Client and in the unraid web gui. Quote Link to comment
lainie Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 If this requires you to compile headers for the kernel, you will need an extra package to make the config. For anyone needing to compile headers for RC13 (or any linux kernel 3.9 and greater), bc-1.06.95 is now required. Extended details of what I did to compile VirtualBox with this kernel can be found in VirtualBox for unRAID thread. Also updated the wiki page Installing_VirtualBox_in_unRAID with this information. I am not familiar with the process of creating VMWare tools, but since I saw "compiling" & "kernel" mentioned... & this caused me some problems earlier... wanted to share the fix. Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 A version for 5.0rc14 has been posted. Quote Link to comment
whymse Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 A version for 5.0rc14 has been posted. Thanks for all your work on this. Very much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
moose Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I'll echo thanks from others Zeron! Very much appreciate your efforts! Quote Link to comment
liunam Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Will any of the older versions work of VMWare Tools for the current RC15 or should I wait for it to be rebuilt for RC15? Thanks Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Will any of the older versions work of VMWare Tools for the current RC15 or should I wait for it to be rebuilt for RC15? Thanks The kernel modules from previous version will not load into the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15. The modules from the current version of open-vm-tools do not build correctly against the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15 so it may be some time before there is a new version available. Quote Link to comment
axeman Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Nooooooo dang it. I never installed this under 4.7. Started around 12a. Now I'm hooked. Hopefully the fix is avail soon. Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Will any of the older versions work of VMWare Tools for the current RC15 or should I wait for it to be rebuilt for RC15? Thanks The kernel modules from previous version will not load into the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15. The modules from the current version of open-vm-tools do not build correctly against the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15 so it may be some time before there is a new version available. There was a post somewhere about needing some additional files to compile against the newer kernels used on RC13 and RC15 don't know if they would help or not but I will try and find the post I saw. It is in this thread so I doubt it is useful as you probably already saw it. Anyway here is the post. Quote Link to comment
overbyrn Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Will any of the older versions work of VMWare Tools for the current RC15 or should I wait for it to be rebuilt for RC15? Thanks The kernel modules from previous version will not load into the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15. The modules from the current version of open-vm-tools do not build correctly against the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15 so it may be some time before there is a new version available. Hi Zeron, Is the vmhgfs module a showstopper? Reason I ask is that I was having a go at compiling this myself. Looks like I picked a bad time to learn eh. I notice there are two issues depending on which snapshot release is used: open-vm-tools-2012.10.14-874563 gives an error in inode.c during compile of vmhgfs open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359 does compile, however due to vmci and vsock being merged upstream, it breaks the loading of vmhgfs module. I found a bunch of posts regarding patches for other distros, but afraid I'm not clever enough to work out how to adapt them to fix this problem. Regards, overbyrn Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Will any of the older versions work of VMWare Tools for the current RC15 or should I wait for it to be rebuilt for RC15? Thanks The kernel modules from previous version will not load into the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15. The modules from the current version of open-vm-tools do not build correctly against the kernel used in unRaid5.0rc15 so it may be some time before there is a new version available. Hi Zeron, Is the vmhgfs module a showstopper? Reason I ask is that I was having a go at compiling this myself. Looks like I picked a bad time to learn eh. I notice there are two issues depending on which snapshot release is used: open-vm-tools-2012.10.14-874563 gives an error in inode.c during compile of vmhgfs open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359 does compile, however due to vmci and vsock being merged upstream, it breaks the loading of vmhgfs module. I found a bunch of posts regarding patches for other distros, but afraid I'm not clever enough to work out how to adapt them to fix this problem. Regards, overbyrn Yes - that and one other module has a unresolved symbol issue when you try to load it. I hope to get some time attempt the compile late this evening. Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Zeron - Any idea if you'll be able to get the tools compiled for 16b? Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Zeron - Any idea if you'll be able to get the tools compiled for 16b? I have been working on it for the last few hours. 22nd compile attempt running now. With a bit of luck; it should be posted in the next few hours. Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 A version for unRaid 5.0rc16b has been posted. Quote Link to comment
SCSI Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Thank you very much! Installed and working great! Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Thanks a lot! Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment
deionmann Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 it seems 5.0rc16c just came out... where can i go to download rc16b? I'd rather have a version with vmware tools than the latest/greatest thanks Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 it seems 5.0rc16c just came out... where can i go to download rc16b? I'd rather have a version with vmware tools than the latest/greatest thanks http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28353.0 Quote Link to comment
deionmann Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 unfortunately that link only takes me to the dl for 16c :'( Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 I forgot that happens. I hate that. All versions should be accessible from their announcement threads IMO. Somewhere there is a link to every version. I'll see if I can find it. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 http://download.lime-technology.com/download/ Quote Link to comment
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