June 4, 201313 yr 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.
June 5, 201313 yr Author 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
June 5, 201313 yr 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.
June 5, 201313 yr 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.
June 13, 201313 yr A version for 5.0rc14 has been posted. Thanks for all your work on this. Very much appreciated.
June 17, 201313 yr 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
June 17, 201313 yr Author 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.
June 17, 201313 yr Nooooooo dang it. I never installed this under 4.7. Started around 12a. Now I'm hooked. Hopefully the fix is avail soon.
June 17, 201313 yr 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.
June 17, 201313 yr 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
June 17, 201313 yr Author 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.
July 4, 201313 yr Author 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.
July 6, 201313 yr 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
July 7, 201313 yr 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
July 7, 201313 yr 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
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