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  • 1.  VMware Tools required for linux?

    Posted Nov 07, 2009 07:08 AM

    Under ESX4 for a properly/fast working Linux guest(s) do I VMware Tools installed? I'm not running X windows or doing any video at all. Its purely text based servers like web and samba. Thanks.



  • 2.  RE: VMware Tools required for linux?

    Posted Nov 07, 2009 07:36 AM

    VMware Tools provide a lot of feature.

    I suggest to install them for guest shutdown/reboot (very useful), VCB script (but for a samba server are not necessary), memory ballon driver (very important), network/disk drivers (I do not notice a big difference with Linux drivers).

    Andre



  • 3.  RE: VMware Tools required for linux?

    Posted Nov 07, 2009 09:11 AM

    My kernels are version 2.4 (Slackware 10) and are custom compilied. I was curious if anyone knows a step by step on how to install in this scenario. Do I need to patch my kernel source or something? Or just enable kernel modules?



  • 4.  RE: VMware Tools required for linux?

    Posted Nov 07, 2009 05:13 PM

    If your kernel has module enable, and you have the header and the .config you must be able to compile the modules that match your kernel.

    Andre



  • 5.  RE: VMware Tools required for linux?

    Posted Nov 07, 2009 09:22 PM

    The tools come as a tar.gz of source that it will automatically compile and install as modules into your running kernel against your existing kernel version.






    --Matt

    VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek