Bug 264678

Summary:	app-emulation/open-vm-tools: won't build on a 2.6.29 kernel
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hugo Gonçalves <hugommg>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	chris.lieb.hotmail+gentoo, dustin, gengor, gentoo, Manfred.Knick, mengchaowin, urcindalo, zteccc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	264722

Description Hugo Gonçalves 2009-04-02 19:18:52 UTC

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

Comment 1 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-04 14:26:43 UTC

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

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-09 22:51:26 UTC

*** Bug 265421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 valli 2009-05-13 07:29:03 UTC

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

Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-16 15:26:09 UTC

ping... 2.6.29 is planned to go stable on 23rd may, would be nice to see this fixed

Comment 5 Armando Di Cianno 2009-05-24 21:07:01 UTC

newest open vm tools is 20090522

it'd be nice if there was an update to portage or the layman overlay

Comment 6 loth 2009-06-03 09:06:18 UTC

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.)

Comment 7 redneb 2009-06-04 04:30:39 UTC

I tried 0.0.20090318.154848 from the overlay and although it compiles against 2.6.29, it doesn't create the init script

Comment 8 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-08 01:37:14 UTC

(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?

Comment 9 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-09 21:26:53 UTC

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.