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johanfo

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Registered: 2013-10-05

Posts: 11

wm-ware guest with annoying errors

Hi

I'm running arch as a guest under WM Player, with open open-vm-tools 5:2013.09.16-5

Every 30 seconds I get this log entry, though the software seems to work properly.
Is this normal?  Seems strange at least.

vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get OS info.
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
vmsvc[288]: [ warning] [vmsvc] HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.

johanfo

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Registered: 2013-10-05

Posts: 11

Re: wm-ware guest with annoying errors

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johanfo

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Registered: 2013-10-05

Posts: 11

Re: wm-ware guest with annoying errors

Found it:

The open-vm-tools reads the file /etc/arch-release which is empty:
# cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: wm-ware guest with annoying errors

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: wm-ware guest with annoying errors

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

... and to not make empty bumps.  Always provide more information.
our policy

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