Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Eric Gamess wrote: >> If you install this for a VM running on ESX then you can ignore this >> error, since HGFS (Host-Guest-Filsystem) does not work with ESX and >> vmsync is for the experimental VSS-like snapshot feature for Linux which >> I never saw used in any production environment. > I am

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Eric Gamess
> If you install this for a VM running on ESX then you can ignore this > error, since HGFS (Host-Guest-Filsystem) does not work with ESX and > vmsync is for the experimental VSS-like snapshot feature for Linux which > I never saw used in any production environment. Sven, I am using VMware Workst

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Eric Gamess
Dear Darac, > Sounds like Bug #779081, which suggests an upgrade to version > 2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2+deb7u1. Yes, you are right!!! This is the bug. I found information on it in the Internet. So now, can someone point me to how to move to version 2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2+deb7u1 ?

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Eric Gamess wrote: > And I got an error message: > Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) > Consult the make.log in the build directory > /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/ for more information. > Setting up open-vm-tools (2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2) ... >

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:04:14AM -0700, Eric Gamess wrote: > Thank you Liam, > > > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work >

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Eric Gamess
Thank you Liam, > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work > with DKMS. Therefore the module(s) will automaticaly be recompiled on

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Liam O'Toole (liam.p.oto...@gmail.com): > The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package > description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver > (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work > with DKMS. Therefore the module(s) will

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-22, Eric Gamess wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to install open-vm-tools in Debian 7.8 i386. > I tried: >apt-get install open-vm-tools > > > And I got an error message: > Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) > Consult the make.log in the build directory