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anyone ever compiled and installed on Solaris 11.4 x86-64
Just curious to see if anyone has done so before I make an attempt.
Thanks!
The VMware Tools and open-vm-tools team is not aware of anyone attempting to build the open-vm-tools source on a Solaris OS.
In the past VMware provided VMware Tools releases for *nix OS in CD that contained a tar file and Perl script that would install and configure VMware Tools on various OS's. The *nix releases were discontinued with the 10.3.5 and 10.3.10 releases with customers directed to use open-vm-tools packaged provided by their OS vendors.
So the last VMware Tools solaris.iso is 10.3.10 and can be downloaded from: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/details?downloadGroup=VMTOOLS10310&productId=1072&rPId=54843
There was always the hope that Sun, Oracle or the Solaris community would build and release open-vm-tools, but there never seemed to be any interest. Should you be interested in building open-vm-tools on Solaris 11, VMware can offer you guidance and answer your questions.
The guidance would be appreciated! :)
I do have the latest VMware Tools for Solaris installed in our 2 VMs so this is not a critical need but at some point a VMware upgrade may "break" them.
This might be a Christmas "break" project so I might not be in touch until that time.
Any upgrades in VMware hypervisors are not expected to break older versions of VMware Tools. So you should be safe.
When you are ready to start the project, use this issue to get in touch. I can provide you with the list of build dependencies used by other *nix releases to use as a guide.
I will definitely be available the week before Christmas. VMware is officially closed for the week between Christmas and the New Year; responses may be a little slow that week.
I know that this topic is one year old but I have ported and maintained the open-vm-tools for Solaris 11 x86 (11.3 and 11.4) two years ago for the company I am working for. To comply with GPL I have to release the sources for the community. I had no time for that until now. Today I have released the source code and the p5p solaris package for an easy installation. You will find it in my github fork of this project if you are still interested or if you want to test it.
Awesome! Thanks for the code. I will try to test it out during the Thanksgiving holiday.
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@rgc2000 , Awesome indeed! On behalf of the Solaris user community, thank you.
@chaplina , If you have any questions or issues when buikding or testing Rene's open-vm-tools 12.1.0 github fork, feel free to raise a new open-vm-tools github issue to discuss the problems.
Is there an active Solaris user community that might be willing to take on the task of building and providing open-vm-tools to all users running Solaris 11 VMs ?
I have made some tests today to check the drivers included. I already know that the network driver for vmxnet and vmxnet3 are ok because I have been using them. Unfortunately the vmhgfs, vmblock and vmmemct seem to be broken. They compile with no error, they can be loaded by the Solaris kernel but they don’t work. The Solaris devfsadm command will hang after loading those drivers. I need to take a look to understand what’s wrong. As we are using ESXi servers, vmhgfs and vmblock are not useful for us (they are only used in vmware workstation, right ?) and vmmemctl is not used neither on our servers because we don’t allow memory ballooning. The vmtoolsd daemon works as expected.