vmware-tools on SPLAT

[harrisi]

Just wondering if anyone has installed vmware-tools on SecurePlatform. It appears that even if you use the rpm installer, you still need the perl interpreter (not supplied with SPLAT) to configure the toolset.

[Sergej]

I have heard that some customers run SPLAT on VMWARE in production. A lot doing this in the labs. As far as I know VMWARE tools are primary for Xserver GUI optimization. If you SPLAT successfully detect network card you can skip this step.

[harrisi]

yep... We've just got the management module in the VM environment and the enforcement module is standalone. It works fine.

And we don't need the gui enhancements with vmtools, just the heartbeat feature which tells VCC (virtual control center) whether the system is ok. We have to turn the heart beat feature off for all the VM's until we find a way to install vmtools on SPLAT otherwise we get inundated with messages saying the system is down.

[kva.kva]

SPLAT works on vmware without problem. But i think installation vmware-tools is impossible or very very hard.
1'st you need perl on SPLAT. I think also you'll need to install some (may be a lot) dependent packets for perl.
I try to install independently vmxnet (net driver) for SPLAT and can't do it, because in that case i need kernel src for rebuilding it. I think that vmxnet can to increase "speed" of virtual network interfaces.

On vmware web-site you can download CP R60 for vmware, but i don't find any visible differences with usual installation from CP CD.