This ebuild won't build against a 2.6.29 kernel. A newer version of open-vm-tools that builds on newer kernels is available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204462&package_id=244023&release_id=669290 Also, vmware-guestd as been deprecated and vmtoolsd should now be used instead. Thank you for all your hard work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge open-vm-tools against gentoo-sources-2.6.29
The version you suggested is already available in the vmware overlay [1], which you can try out through layman. Could you please give this version a test and let me know if there's any issues with it (I hadn't spotted the swap to vmtoolsd, so that would be a good area to test). Thanks... 5:) [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/vmware/browser/trunk/app-emulation/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-0.0.20090318.154848.ebuild
*** Bug 265421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
open-vm-tools-0.0.20090318.154848 compiles here without problems. (vanilla-sources-2.6.28.9,gcc-4.3.2-r3,glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1) What about the newest open-vm-tools-0.0.20090423.162451? There are some modules which the current ebuild wont install: vmci vsock vmxnet3 Especially vmxnet3 would be cool: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208241
ping... 2.6.29 is planned to go stable on 23rd may, would be nice to see this fixed
newest open vm tools is 20090522 it'd be nice if there was an update to portage or the layman overlay
It seems that it is well known that the open-vm-tools in the official tree are completely broken for the current stable kernel. I think this versions should be masked - this would have saved much time for me. (Additionally I would like the official tree updated to a working version of open-vm-tools, because I really like them.)
I tried 0.0.20090318.154848 from the overlay and although it compiles against 2.6.29, it doesn't create the init script
(In reply to comment #7) > I tried 0.0.20090318.154848 from the overlay and although it compiles against > 2.6.29, it doesn't create the init script > open-vm-tools 2009.05.22 ebuild is in the portage tree. Could you try it out? Could ealaborate on init scripts problem?
09 Jul 2009; Vadim Kuznetsov vadimk@gentoo.org +open-vm-tools-0.0.20090618.172495-r1.ebuild It builds on 2.6.29 and 2.6.30.
