[CFT] emulators/open-vm-tools{,-nox11} update to 10.1.0

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 1 10:14:38 UTC 2017


On 1/3/17 1:57 pm, Steve Wills wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks to everyone who tested.
Hi I haven't tested your new tools but I needed to do the following in 
the previous version.
(otherwise I coudl have used a pkg..)

--- services/plugins/guestInfo/guestInfoServer.c.orig   2017-02-25 
05:06:29.742875000 +0000
+++ services/plugins/guestInfo/guestInfoServer.c        2017-02-25 
05:07:14.540508000 +0000
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@

     /* Get NIC information. */
     if (!GuestInfo_GetNicInfo(&nicInfo)) {
-      g_warning("Failed to get nic info.\n");
+      //g_warning("Failed to get nic info.\n");
        /*
         * Return an empty nic info.
         */
otherwise it spammed the log files with thousands of those messages

  Feb  6 14:17:55 vmcc331 vmsvc[766]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.

vmcc331# grep "Failed to get nic info" /var/log/messages |wc -l
     8534



>
> I've updated the patch and packages in the same location and fixed a
> number of issues. Please re-test if you can.
>
> The only remaining issue that I know of is building with libunwind
> installed. If you run into an issue buidling, uninstall libunwind.
> Upstream is looking at that.
>
> This is likely the final change before I commit this, which currently I
> plan to do on 3/15. So if you use it, now is your chance to test and
> report issues.
>
> Steve
>
> On 01/19/2017 16:59, Steve Wills wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like anyone possible to test an updated version of
>> emulators/open-vm-tools{,-nox11}. I have the patch here for those who
>> wish to build themselves:
>>
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~swills/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-10.1.0.diff
>>
>> And for those who wish to test using packages, I've built packages with
>> the new version and it's deps from the quarterly ports branch here:
>>
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~swills/open-vm-tools/
>>
>> with sub-directories for various FreeBSD versions and archs. There's
>> also a script which can help you configure the repo so that you can
>> install using pkg, here:
>>
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~swills/open-vm-tools/ovmsetup.sh
>>
>> Just grab the script, run it, then pkg install the open-vm-tools
>> package, or update it if you already have it installed. This is a bit of
>> a new testing method for me, so don't be surprised if there are some bumps.
>>
>> I would be really nice see tests with both various versions of VMWare
>> ESXi, particularly ESXi 6.0 and 6.5, and also VMWare desktop products.
>> Any help testing would be appreciated. Even just a "worked OK for me" is
>> helpful.
>>
>> One particular note about this version, it no longer includes vmhgfs.
>> Instead, there's support for using fuse to share files, though I haven't
>> found documentation on that yet.
>>
>> So, if you can try it out, please do and let me know how it goes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>



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