[sles-beta] SLES11-SP4 beta2 x86_64 - VMware Tools Again ...

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Day,

My checks with x86_64 on SLES have gone well. So looking at a zLinux update this week, which is good news.

What has been APITA is the grand Ping_Pong being played between VMware and SUSE with “Tools”. With SP3 one used VMware tools for Workstation and one was happy. You run an update and the good people of SUSE say, we can do better and pop into the mix their “open-vm-tools and libvmtools”, You have not asked for this, it’s just done, not check to see if this is a “VMware Workstation”.

So you finish the update and all looks Okay, so you then run a VMware tools update ‘cos you know you have a new kernel. I’m running VMware Workstation 11.1.0 which has tools 9.9.2_2496486 and it’s not given me any issues, so far. Re-load after the tools update and Wow… what’s has my mouse been smoking !!!!! It’s all over the shop, umm better close down, Wow why is the stop script saying it’s not a happy badger….

One does look around and after the fun and games with SLE12 it’s quite easy to see the “open-vm-tools” are back again giving my mouse something that sends it in circles…

If you kill the open-vm-tools and set it to never again darken your door, run the VMware tools again and reload then you have a mouse the is back under control and scripts that start and stop when asked.

I do not understand what the open-vm-tools are there for. If you are running VMware software then you have their tools, which get updated quite often. If your not running VMware why would you want open-vm-tools ?

__R



From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of urs.frey at post.ch
Sent: Montag, 9. März 2015 16:59
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: [sles-beta] SLES11-SP4 beta2 x86_64

Hi all

Did some fist installation SLES-11-SP4-beta2 x86_64 using autoyast on a HP Proliant Blade BL460cGen8 attached to SAN EMC.
No problems so far. Autoyast, FCoE and multipathing working as it worked on SP3

Saw new kernel version: 3.0.101-50-default
== OK, big difference in version numbering from the existing SP3 3.0.101-0.46-default, so difficulties when doing upgrades will not occur concerning kernel versioning.

Best regards

Urs Frey
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