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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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    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
    last edited by May 4, 2011, 11:45 PM

    Reinstall the package in about 5 minutes, the syntax error should be fixed.

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      toomeek
      last edited by May 7, 2011, 3:56 PM May 7, 2011, 3:47 PM

      Hmm..
      May I attach something?
      QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5), Copyright © 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
      using KVM.

      On Debian I have "virtio-net" NIC attached.
      On pFsense I have "Intel E1000" NIC attached, becouse pfSense won't recognize "virtio-net". Shame..

      Measured throughput Client (Gigabit NIC) -> VM (attached to Gigabit NIC bridge)
      Debian: ~860 Mbps
      pfSense: ~260 MBps

      Let's do more tests. Using 2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Thu Apr 14 18:50:50 EDT 2011.

      pfSense_transfer.png
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      pfSense_transfer2.png
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      Debian_speed_test.png
      Debian_speed_test.png_thumb

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by May 7, 2011, 4:06 PM

        That has nothing to do with VMware or VMware tools, start your own thread please.

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          JoeUser
          last edited by May 8, 2011, 9:12 AM

          Open-VM-Tools 217847 working on 2.0-RC1 (amd64) built on Sat May 7 23:04:11 EDT 2011.
          Tools status in vSphere client shows "Unmanaged", tools are running and kernel modules are present.

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            danswartz
            last edited by May 8, 2011, 12:45 PM

            Dunno how many folks know this - I was told this on a vmware forum: people get confused and worried when they see "Unmanaged" for the vm tools status.  That is fine.  What it means is it is vm tools not installed via the esx/esxi interface, do esx/esxi is not managing it for you.  If it said 'not installed' or 'not running', then worry.  HTH.

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              Clouseau
              last edited by May 8, 2011, 7:06 PM

              I will have a try tomorrow and hope that tools runs fine. Unmanaged status is just telling that fact that it's not managed by Vmware vSphere client. Vmware should change this status info to something much better (Open Source Tools OK)

              –--------------------------------------------------------------
              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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                calvinz
                last edited by May 9, 2011, 1:38 PM

                so anyone had luck installing open-vm-tools up to this point ?

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                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by May 9, 2011, 1:40 PM

                  @calvinz:

                  so anyone had luck installing open-vm-tools up to this point ?

                  As I said earlier in the thread, it loads fine on 32 and 64 bit VMs for me now.

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                    danswartz
                    last edited by May 10, 2011, 2:55 PM

                    Ditto here.

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                      Clouseau
                      last edited by May 10, 2011, 5:45 PM

                      Confirm! Open-Vm-Tools works again ! Huh….. Nice job! This was an huge problem for me and I'm happy to see this is over.

                      –--------------------------------------------------------------
                      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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                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by May 10, 2011, 5:51 PM

                        Glad to hear it worked.

                        (On an unrelated note I also tackled another 800-pound gorilla, ntop, which should also work now)

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                          photonman
                          last edited by May 11, 2011, 4:11 AM

                          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?

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                            cmb
                            last edited by May 11, 2011, 6:23 AM

                            @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 May 11, 2011, 3:07 PM

                              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 May 16, 2011, 8:17 AM

                                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

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                                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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                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by May 16, 2011, 11:54 AM

                                  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 May 16, 2011, 12:06 PM

                                    @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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                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by May 16, 2011, 12:08 PM

                                      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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                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by May 16, 2011, 12:40 PM

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

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                                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                          last edited by May 16, 2011, 5:57 PM

                                          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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