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Comment on How to update my sparc FreeBSD install by msmith

msmith — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:38:18 +0000

Thanks for the writeup. I haven’t had to upgrade FreeBSD in half a decade so most of the steps were lost to me hehe. Also never had to update a sparc freebsd system. I’m running 8.2-RELEASE but I’d imagine the steps are practically the same.

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by Nifty Debian packages | cloud.kemta.net

Nifty Debian packages | cloud.kemta.net — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:53:08 +0000

[...] open-vm-tools Opensource vmware tools. Follow the guide on this site: http://www.surlyjake.com/2011/02/install-open-vm-tools-on-debian-6-squeeze/ [...]

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:38:37 +0000

I am bringing up squeeze (Debian 6) on a on a 3.1.0-1-686-pae kernel as a guest of a windows 7 machine.

The latest update of open-vm-tools migrated from module-assistant to DKMS-based kernel module builds. Unfortunately the DKMS process is broken (but OK with work-arounds).

I installed open-vm-tools and ended up with the the following packages:

ii open-vm-dkms 2:8.8.0+2011.12.20-562307-1
ii open-vm-tools 2:8.8.0+2011.12.20-562307-1

Normally, DKMS will automatically build and install kernel modules. To get a DKMS build and install of the open-vm kernel modules, I had to patch vmxnet.c and run dkms manually

Patch:

— vmxnet-original.c 2012-01-07 17:59:02.000000000 -0800
+++ vmxnet-modified.c 2012-01-07 17:59:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -2042 +2042 @@
-#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 1, 0)
+#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
@@ -2054 +2054 @@
-#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 1, 0)
+#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
@@ -2077 +2077 @@
-#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 1, 0)
+#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
@@ -2084 +2084 @@
-#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 1, 0)
+#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
@@ -2586 +2586 @@
-#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 1, 0)
+#if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)

DKMS commands, see dkms (8):

% dkms add open-vm-tools/2011.12.20
% dkms build open-vm-tools/2011.12.20
% dkms install open-vm-tools/2011.12.20

DKMS status: before and after each step I used

% dkms status open-vm-tools/2011.12.20

Finally, I checked the modules using lsmod

% modinfo vmxnet

Result: open-vm-tools kernel modules loaded successfully.

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:46:36 +0000

Thanks! Worked perfectly with VMware 4 and Debian Squeeze. One thing you may want to add for folks is to make sure they also install the appropriate linux headers for their kernel.

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by powit

powit — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:53:03 +0000

this doesn’t work for kernel 3

#uname -r
3.1.0-1-686-pae

linux-headers-3.1.0-1-686-pae installed

I think not yet supported!

Comment on Pstools: Access Denied in a Domain Environment by Brad

Brad — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:13:57 +0000

I’ll see your credentials and raise you one If you do the Shift+RightClick on the ‘CMD’ in the start box and enter the Local Administrator credentials for the target machine, you can leave off the PsExec -u and -p params altogether! Since I started using Ver. 1.98 I’m now including the -h param, and that lets me connect fine to a Win2K8,R2 or Win7 machine from XP, but it seems to have no effect whatsoever connecting FROM a Win2K8 or Win7 machine.

BTW, I had my Network Engineers check and UAC is disabled on the target as well as on my Win7 PC where I’m executing from, so that’s no solution to this issue.

Is there a way to automate that Shift+RightClick from the command-line? If so, I could modify my scripts to perform those additional steps when the target is either Win7, Win2K8, or (I assume) Win8.

Comment on Batch extract a directory full of split RAR archives “part1″, “part2″ by enolive

enolive — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:18:27 +0000

thanks +1

this saves a lot work when extracting tons of stuff from a file hosting service

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by GT

GT — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:12:07 +0000

Great job – works with ESX 5 too

Comment on Install Open-VM-tools on Debian 6 squeeze by Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:15:43 +0000

At last I found your good advice for getting vmware tools to work using VMWare Player 4.0 and Debian Squeeze. Thanks very much!

Comment on Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error. by VPelagatti

VPelagatti — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:04:59 +0000

Great! Work for me too