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    NOT SOLVED !! : Open-VM-Tools - NOT WORKING on vSphere

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      cmb
      last edited by

      @photonman:

      I am running a RC1 i386 build from Early april and I just uninstalled my version 2.7xxx vmtools package and installed the latest 3.xxx version and now
      my ESX server says the tools status is "unmanaged".

      does that mean my vmtools is running?

      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,33587.msg188199.html#msg188199

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        photonman
        last edited by

        I got this:

        20377  ??  S      0:00.00 sh -c ps ax|grep vmware
        20675  ??  R      0:00.00 sh -c ps ax|grep vmware
        44364  ??  I      0:21.39 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-to

        $ kldstat
        Id Refs Address    Size          Name
        1   10 0xc0400000 11426c4  kernel
        2    1 0xc762a000 4000       vmmemctl.ko
        3    1 0xc76ae000 5000       vmxnet.ko
        4    1 0xc76b7000 5000       vmblock.ko
        5    1 0xc76bd000 b000     vmhgfs.ko

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          Clouseau
          last edited by

          Uups - Open VM Tools for 64bit pfSense works but 32Bit NOT!!

          Must reopen this.

          Now after reboot I got WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd

          Argh!!!

          Open-VM-Tools are still broken !!

          Package version: 313025

          –--------------------------------------------------------------
          Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
          Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

          pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            Not "still broken". It did work, and there have been commits since to fix other issues that may have broken something again.

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              Clouseau
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              Not "still broken". It did work, and there have been commits since to fix other issues that may have broken something again.

              64bit Open-VM-Tools works still after your fixes. Now I had a try on 32bit and it's not working at all.

              –--------------------------------------------------------------
              Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
              Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

              pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                See above, re: there have been more commits since I fixed it.

                We moved the repositories over to github over the weekend and it's possible some commits didn't happen where they should have. I know someone was working on that package, I'll have to check into it.

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  Give it about 10 minutes and try to reload the package again.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    Actually the package sync was broken since the move to github, try it now and see if it's any better. I just fixed the package sync.

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                      secabeen
                      last edited by

                      This package looks like it installs and runs successfully, but doesn't start properly on bootup.  I can run the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, but if I reboot the PFSense VM, when it comes back up, the vmware daemon and kernel modules aren't loaded.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        ok, I'm seeing that too. The KLDs are loaded but the guest daemon isn't. Shouldn't be hard to fix.

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                          Clouseau
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                          @secabeen:

                          This package looks like it installs and runs successfully, but doesn't start properly on bootup.  I can run the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, but if I reboot the PFSense VM, when it comes back up, the vmware daemon and kernel modules aren't loaded.

                          true, it installs just fine without any errors but vmtools just are not starting. I Still go this error: root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd

                          This is only package I use in my system.

                          –--------------------------------------------------------------
                          Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
                          Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

                          pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            And that command runs fine for me, and the daemon continues to run once I start it by hand.

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                              secabeen
                              last edited by

                              @Clouseau:

                              @secabeen:

                              This package looks like it installs and runs successfully, but doesn't start properly on bootup.  I can run the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, but if I reboot the PFSense VM, when it comes back up, the vmware daemon and kernel modules aren't loaded.

                              true, it installs just fine without any errors but vmtools just are not starting. I Still go this error: root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd

                              This is only package I use in my system.

                              Do you have problems on both 64-bit and 32-bit VMs?

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                                photonman
                                last edited by

                                @secabeen:

                                Do you have problems on both 64-bit and 32-bit VMs?

                                My 64-bit RC2 loads up fine (I think)

                                no error messages

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  @Clouseau:

                                  true, it installs just fine without any errors but vmtools just are not starting. I Still go this error: root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd

                                  This is only package I use in my system.

                                  You appear to have an issue that nobody else seems to have. Try these commands, and show the output:

                                  file /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                  ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                  

                                  For comparison, I get this output on my system:

                                  : file /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                  /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 8.1, stripped
                                  : ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                  /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd:
                                          libvmtools.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0 (0x2809a000)
                                          libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x280f5000)
                                          libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x2810e000)
                                          libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x28123000)
                                          libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x28127000)
                                          libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x2816a000)
                                          libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x2816f000)
                                          libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x28241000)
                                          libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2824a000)
                                          libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28340000)
                                          libicui18n.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.46 (0x2837c000)
                                          libicuuc.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.46 (0x2855e000)
                                          libicudata.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.46 (0x28694000)
                                          libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x29513000)
                                          libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x29607000)
                                          libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x29621000)
                                          libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2962c000)
                                  

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                                    Clouseau
                                    last edited by

                                    Jimp:

                                    $ file /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                    /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd: cannot open `/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd' (No such file or directory)
                                    

                                    and

                                    $ ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                    

                                    Something is totally wrong here, but what can you really do wrong? Bad mouse click on install package ;D

                                    I got version:
                                    2.0-RC2 (i386)
                                    built on Sun May 15 20:43:07 EDT 2011

                                    Problems are now only on 32bit pfSense.

                                    vmwareRC2_32bit_packages_installed.png
                                    vmwareRC2_32bit_packages_installed.png_thumb

                                    –--------------------------------------------------------------
                                    Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
                                    Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

                                    pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      Either the package isn't getting fully installed somehow, or it thinks it is installed but really isn't.

                                      Uninstall the vmware tools package, and then run:

                                      pkg_info
                                      

                                      And then report the results back here. Odds are there is something in the list that, once you pkg_delete -f it, things will start to work properly.

                                      Sure, all you did was click the mouse, but odds are that something in the underlying OS is the real issue, especially since it seems unique to just you.

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                                        Clouseau
                                        last edited by

                                        I run your command: pkg_info:

                                        $ pkg_info
                                        grub-0.97_3         GRand Unified Bootloader
                                        packages            BSD Installer mega-package
                                        python26-2.6.5      An interpreted object-oriented programming language
                                        

                                        I run commands:

                                        
                                        pkg_delete -f grub-0.97_3
                                        pkg_delete -f packages
                                        pkg_delete -f python26-2.6.5
                                        

                                        Now everything seems to be clear.

                                        After this I installed Open-VM-Tools again.

                                        And logs says that vmware tools are not running!

                                        
                                        Jun 13 14:06:24 	kernel: VMware memory control driver initialized
                                        Jun 13 14:06:24 	root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh: WARNING: failed to start vmware_guestd
                                        

                                        Now I run pkg_info again:

                                        fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_7 Kernel module for fuse
                                        fusefs-libs-2.7.4   FUSE allows filesystem implementation in userspace
                                        libdnet-1.11_3      A simple interface to low level networking routines
                                        libiconv-1.13.1_1   A character set conversion library
                                        open-vm-tools-nox11-313025_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests
                                        pcre-8.12           Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
                                        pkg-config-0.25_1   A utility to retrieve information about installed libraries
                                        

                                        So, this issue is not solved! Should I pkg_delete all these packages now?

                                        –--------------------------------------------------------------
                                        Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
                                        Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

                                        pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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                                        • jimpJ
                                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                          last edited by

                                          Don't pkg_delete those, try to find out more about why it can't start vmware-guestd.

                                          What does this output?

                                          ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                          

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                                            Clouseau
                                            last edited by

                                            $ ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
                                            /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd:
                                            	libvmtools.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0 (0x2809a000)
                                            	libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x280f5000)
                                            	libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x2810e000)
                                            	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libgthread-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x28123000)
                                            	libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2812c000)
                                            	libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28222000)
                                            	libicui18n.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libicuuc.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libicudata.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x2825e000)
                                            	libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28352000)
                                            	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2836c000)
                                            	libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28377000)
                                            	libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libicui18n.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libicuuc.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            	libicudata.so.46 => not found (0x0)
                                            

                                            –--------------------------------------------------------------
                                            Multible Alix 2D13, APU1,APU2,APU3 - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit
                                            Multible Vmware vSphere - pfSense 2.4.x 64bit

                                            pfSense - FreeNAS - OwnCloud

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