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#1 2007-11-19 10:05:38
- Seb74
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lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
Tried installing it now on my virtual Arch.
Doesn't find anything.
Dont know if its vmware or if its my nForce4 motherboard.
Followed the exact same procedure as on my real server, which is nForce3.
sensors-detect just doesn't find anything, and I scanned everything and loaded i2c-dev when it asked.
Anyone?
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#2 2007-11-19 10:24:42
- Allan
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
Would you expect it to find anything in vmware? What are you trying to control/monitor?
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#3 2007-11-19 10:50:11
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
I dont have a clue, I dont know how close to the hardware you get within vmware really.
I would like temps and fans, nothing else.
Maybe its just totally impossible, thought I should ask anyway.
I mean, the virtual machines can see what CPU you have, and full access to the NIC and CD-ROM/USB and such, maybe it can also find motherboard-sensors some way.
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#4 2007-11-19 12:36:01
- Allan
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
I can see you being able to access temperature measures, but being able to control the fans in vmware could be very bad. I can see races happening between the two OS's for control of the fan...
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#5 2007-11-19 12:42:17
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
I'm not gonna control them, since bios does that (on nice ASUS-boards anyway with Q-FAN), just read them.
Mostly for fun, so no big deal, just wondering if it would be possible.
As I wrote my install in vmware didn't find anything at all with sensors-detect.
Might be my motherboard on this machine though, dont know if nForce 4 are particulary troublesome, as opposed to nForce 3 on the other machine where it works with Arch as only OS and no virtualisation.
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#6 2007-11-19 22:43:58
- byte
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
Just curious, what does lspci from within vmware report?
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#7 2007-11-20 15:34:57
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
Just curious, what does lspci from within vmware report?
Is lspci some command I'm supposed to try, or some option in lm-sensors?
As of now I'm thinking of maybe running OpenBSD, maybe even with chrooted apache, so guess I wont bother with lm-sensors then.
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#8 2007-11-20 15:48:35
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
That's some command, yes. It should tell you if there are any sensors.
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#9 2007-11-20 20:18:50
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Re: lmsensors not supposed to detect anything from vmware?
Yeah, it finds lots of stuff, like PCI/ISA/IDE/USB/Ethernet and some more....no temp/fan-sensors though.
I dont think I'll mess around with this anymore though, thanks for the help anyway 
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