SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

[inikolaev]

Hi everybody!

I'm a newbie in both VMware ESXi and Linux world and got some difficulties.

Currently I'm experiencing problem configuring vmware-tools on SLES 10 SP2 with kernel-vmi. I can run .rpm file to install vmware-tools but configuration script fails because it requires kernel-vmi sources to compile against it.

And do I still need vmware-tools when using VMI?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

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[malaysiavm]

before you can compile the vmtools with the command on the vm guess, you need to make sure you have the kernel source require during the compilation. If you had missed any of it, you can use YAST to extract the source it needed by the vmtools to be compiled

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[inikolaev]

Thanks a lot!

I have been confused that I can see multiple kernel-*.rpm packages and only one kernel-source.rpm. It appears to be common for all kernels.

Thanks again!

But I have more questions

After installing kernel-vmi kernel acpid and microcode services fail to start.

[malaysiavm]

Any error message in your log files?

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[inikolaev]

Maybe I don't know all the log files to check.

dmesg shows the following:

acpid: loading ACPI laptop modules ( ) failed

Checking/updating CPU microcode failed

[inikolaev]

acpid issue solved by reinstalling package.

Also reinstalled microcode - but modprobe microcode said there's no such module.