From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Wed Mar 1 10:14:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC226CF3FF5 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C251B8CA; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (220-253-188-71.dyn.iinet.net.au [220.253.188.71]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v21AEVim019013 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Mar 2017 02:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: [CFT] emulators/open-vm-tools{,-nox11} update to 10.1.0 To: Steve Wills References: <64b8d45d-2953-fc08-0c79-87bf3510c5b1@FreeBSD.org> <4239ee2c-6cd8-acad-a4e3-a6fdcb1c28bb@FreeBSD.org> From: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Message-ID: <801dd277-3a13-b877-d3d2-baefcca8d70f@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 18:14:25 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4239ee2c-6cd8-acad-a4e3-a6fdcb1c28bb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:14:38 -0000 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 >>