Bug 1373

Summary: "VMware Data Recorvery" with ESXi 4.1 / open-vm-tools fails
Product: Fedora Reporter: Harald Reindl <spam2>
Component: open-vm-toolsAssignee: Denis Leroy <denis>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: spam2
Priority: P5    
Version: 13   
Hardware: All   
OS: GNU/Linux   
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Description Harald Reindl 2010-08-20 02:31:52 CEST
Hi

Last week we migrated our virtual machines with open-vm-tools installed to ESXi 4.1 / SAn-Storage with vCenter-Server and would like to use "VMware Data Recovery"-Appliance. This works with two windows-guests but not with our fedora machines

Are there any known issues and is it possible that and update of open-vm-tools would solve this? Last upstream seems to be "open-vm-tools-2010.07.25-280253"

open-vm-tools-0.0.0.243334-1.fc12.x86_64
kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.32.16-150.fc12.x86_64-0.0.0.243334-1.fc12.9.x86_64
Comment 1 Harald Reindl 2010-08-20 03:10:44 CEST
OK, seems for F12 this is not possible because:

> vmmemctl: Linux driver removed (it's now upstream)

> The pvscsi driver was removed from the open-vm-tools distribution
> (it is upstream as of Linux 2.6.33).

But my F13-Test-VM with updates-testing has 2.6.34.3-37.fc13.x86_64 and "open-vm-tools-0.0.0.243334-1.fc13.x86_64" which is very bad because lsmod shows

* vmmemctl                7913  0
* vmware_balloon          6621  0

and "vmware_balloon" is afaik the vmmemctl-replacement from upstream-kernel
There should be some review, not sure if 2.6.34 is pushed to stable in the meantime for F13

Comment 2 Harald Reindl 2010-09-10 10:38:06 CEST
Now Fedora has pushed 2.6.34.6-54.fc13 to stable repos and i'm waitung for any open-vm-tools for the last kernel to upgrade our main servers :-)

Is there anything that blocks open-vm-tools-2010.08.24 for fedora?

It seems not to making troubles but "vmmemctl" should not be included in the kmod-package for 2.6.34 since "vmware_balloon" is loaded and included in the upstream-kernel als replacement

[root@buildserver:~]$ uname -rv
2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 27 08:56:01 UTC 2010

[root@buildserver:~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vmblock                11600  1 
vmmemctl                7897  0 
vsock                  40781  0 
vmsync                  3640  0 
nf_conntrack_ftp       11389  0 
xt_limit                2076  1 
xt_iprange              2167  4 
xt_multiport            2514  12 
iptable_nat             4890  0 
nf_nat                 19999  1 iptable_nat
ext2                   59827  1 
vmware_balloon          6621  0 
vmxnet3                28117  0 
vmci                   33764  1 vsock
vmw_pvscsi             15411  7 

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Installieren:
 kernel                                                        x86_64                  2.6.34.6-54.fc13                        updates                                      22 M
 kernel-devel                                                  x86_64                  2.6.34.6-54.fc13                        updates                                     6.4 M
Aktualisieren:
 kernel-headers                                                x86_64                  2.6.34.6-54.fc13                        updates                                     719 k
Entfernen:
 kernel                                                        x86_64                  2.6.32.21-166.fc12                      @updates/12                                 104 M
 kernel-devel                                                  x86_64                  2.6.32.21-166.fc12                      @updates/12                                  22 M
Entfernt für Abhängigkeiten:
 kmod-open-vm-tools-2.6.32.21-166.fc12.x86_64                  x86_64                  0.0.0.243334-1.fc12.11                  @rpmfusion-free-updates/12                  300 k

Vorgangsübersicht
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Install       2 Package(s)
Upgrade       1 Package(s)
Remove        3 Package(s)

Gesamte Downloadgrösse: 29 M
Ist dies in Ordnung? [j/N] :n
Comment 3 Harald Reindl 2010-09-26 16:10:26 CEST
PLEASE update open-vm-tools for fedora13 to a recent version and to not totally ignore bugreports
Comment 4 Denis Leroy 2010-10-05 09:56:48 CEST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1429 ***