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crankshaft

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Registered: 2013-04-29

Posts: 20

ESXI & vmwaretools

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _in_VMware

I cannot get vmwaretools to successfully install on a ARCH VM.

I have tried with the latest kernel, and as suggested elsewhere, the LTS kernel ( 3.10.20-1-lts ) which was reported to work, however I am unable to succeed with either the open or the official versions.

With the official version (on both LTS and current kernels) I get a failure of VMCI:

/etc/init.d/rc6.d/K99vmware-tools start
Checking acpi hot plug                                              done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Switching to guest configuration:                                   done
   VM communication interface:                                         done
   VM communication interface socket family:                          failed
   Guest operating system daemon:                                      done

And on the open version (LST and Current) I get:

Error!  Build of vmblock.ko failed for: 3.10.20-1-lts (i686)

I have googled both of these issues and tried several things but none result in success.

Has anyone else succeeded in installing vmwaretools on a recent kernel ??

Last edited by crankshaft (2013-12-13 10:21:01)

mattbarszcz

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 35

Re: ESXI & vmwaretools

Same problem here.

Anyone know what happened to the open-vm-tools-modules package?