Hi, I just ran emerge -u world and it wants to update vmware-modules, which has now a depency on vmware-player, which brings gtk+ and gdk-pixbuf, which also wants an X-Server. Since this a console only virtual machine based on an ESXi Server i clearly don't need the X :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vmware-modules on console only server
(In reply to comment #0) > Since this a console only virtual machine based on an ESXi Are you installing vmware-modules on VM guest? ESXi is a host. Did I understand you correctly? If so, you do not need vmware-modules on a guest. What you might need/want on a guest is open-vm-tools from portage or vmware-tools provided by ESXi and modules provided by kernel (vmw_pvscsi, vmw_balloon, vmxnet3) vmware-modules comes from player or workstation to be run on the host. Thanks.
Hi, I was under the Impression at least until vmware-modules-1.0.0.25-r4 that these were the kernel (guest) drivers in addition to open-vm-tools which I thought were something like vmware-tools (the guest toolkit for disk shrinking etc..) Am I too far off?
(In reply to comment #2) > Hi, I was under the Impression at least until vmware-modules-1.0.0.25-r4 that > these were the kernel (guest) drivers in addition to open-vm-tools which I > thought were something like vmware-tools (the guest toolkit for disk shrinking > etc..) > Am I too far off? vmware-modules produes kernel modules to be use on host. {vmware,open-vm}-tools also produce kernel modules, only to be used on guest. However, "open-vm-tools 2011.03.28 changes: * The VMCI driver was thoroughly reworked so that it can serve as both the host and guest VMCI driver. This is mostly targeted at supporting nested VMs. "
Okay my bad :) thanks for clearing that up though!
