VMWare tools for unRAID

[Zeron]

I can confirm this, it only occurs for me with the .plg package though, manually installing the .tgz works fine.

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.

[johner]

Hi, ok, so created an /extras folder in the root of the flash share, copied in the tgz, rebooted, no loady? do i need to mod the go script?

[Johnm]

Hi, ok, so created an /extras folder in the root of the flash share, copied in the tgz, rebooted, no loady? do i need to mod the go script?

I belive it is just "extra".. no quotes.

[Zeron]

Update to open-vm-tools v. 2011.08.21.471295 fro beta12/12a

Should have a .plg version again in the next few days.

[madburg]

Update to open-vm-tools v. 2011.08.21.471295 fro beta12/12a

Should have a .plg version again in the next few days.

Thanks!

[madburg]

Zeron, your VM Tools link for unRAID 4.7 seems to be down.

[Zeron]

Zeron, your VM Tools link for unRAID 4.7 seems to be down.

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

[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?

[jetskijoe]

It looks to install correctly for me . 

[mrmachine]

Thanks for creating this. I just dropped the file in the /boot/extra folder, and it just works (so far).

I create a custom bzroot with some software installed permanently rather than via packages at boot, and would like to include this. I could just install the package into my bzroot before I compress it, but could you elaborate on how this package is created?

Cheers.

[graywolf]

Anyone else getting the following messages in syslog about every 30 secs?

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Oct 17 11:05:05 TestTowerVM vmsvc[1778]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
Oct 17 11:05:05 TestTowerVM vmsvc[1778]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.

Any ideas on how to rectify/fix/work around?

[Zeron]

Anyone else getting the following messages in syslog about every 30 secs?

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Oct 17 11:05:05 TestTowerVM vmsvc[1778]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
Oct 17 11:05:05 TestTowerVM vmsvc[1778]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.

Any ideas on how to rectify/fix/work around?

I do not get that error on my unraid VM's.  I have check on the ones running under eSXI 4.1 and 5.0

[graywolf]

are you using open-vm-tools-2011.07.19-450511-unraid4.7-dan1.tgz ??

[Johnm]

I have no VMsvc errors.
I am running 5B12 on ESXi 5.0

[Zeron]

I can confirm that those errors only appear in unRAID 4.7.  I hope to have an updated package ready later today or early tomorrow  that connects the issue.