Summary: | vmware-modules-238.3-r8 requires gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1 which requires USE +X | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Tobias Margitan <t.margitan> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) <vadimk> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | vmware+disabled |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Tobias Margitan
2011-04-03 16:23:33 UTC
(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! |