Mike Arnold
Mike Arnold
The only other thing I can think of is whether the output of "`ls -l /etc/init*/vmware*`" can tell us anything.
@aholen And before the upgrade, you were getting the `change from stopped to running failed`... error on each Pupet run?
OK. I am starting to see the problem more clearly. razorsedge/vmwaretools (and I, since Foreman was mentioned) assumes a new install and determines whether to use upstart based on the...
Can anyone confirm whether I am off my rocker here?
@cybacolt You say that "vmware-tools v5" is using upstart, but which 5.x version? VMware has 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5. I know that they started usig upstart on RHEL under vmware-tools...
@juaningan You will probably want to use external data (ie Hiera) to provide class parameter values. If I remove `include ::apt`, the `apt::source` no longer works.
@AndreasPfaffeneder Why use an `Exec` and not a `File` resource for these symlinks?
@AndreasPfaffeneder Was there a reason to use `Exec` resources instead of `File` for the symlinks?
Ah, that makes sense. Could I convince you to provide an rspec test for the new code?
Unfortunately, the current approach is the only way to not have the vmware-guestd command execute on every Puppet run. It might be possible to convert to onlyif for the vmtoolsd...