[Bug 823354] New: vmw_balloon.ko cannot be loaded
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c0 Summary: vmw_balloon.ko cannot be loaded Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 The script /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd attempts to load vmw_balloon.ko after loading vmblock. However, vmw_balloon.ko cannot be loaded. Therefore the command /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd start ends with the ENODEV - error message. An attempt to do so ends with the error ENODEV. I guess the reason is found within vmw_balloon.c: if (x86_hyper != &x86_hyper_vmware) return -ENODEV unfortunately I did not find any hint explaining what could be wrong. Maybe the loading of an additional kernel module would be neccessary, but this does not show. Thank you for looking into this. Take care Dieter Jurzitza Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. call /etc/init.d/vmtoolsd start (output: Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.) 2. modprobe vmw_balloon results in /FATAL: Error inserting vmw_balloon (/lib/modules/3.4.42-2.28-desktop/kernel/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.ko): No such device Actual Results: See above Expected Results: vmw_balloon to be loaded -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c1 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |jeffm@suse.com InfoProvider| |dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de --- Comment #1 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> 2013-07-15 13:35:57 EDT --- Does your dmesg have a line that contains "Hypervisor detected" ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c2 Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bpetkov@suse.com --- Comment #2 from Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> 2013-07-15 21:54:18 UTC --- Not only that - it should also say: Hypervisor detected: VMware -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c3 --- Comment #3 from Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> 2013-07-16 04:29:58 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=548078) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=548078) dmesg - output This is the output of "dmesg". I haven't seen anything as you described, but maybe you can see something from the dmesg output that tells you what is going wrong here. The PC is quite new, so it should not cause any issues in this regard. The one I used to use before did not exhibit any similar problems. Thank you for looking into this. Dieter Jurzitza -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c4 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de --- Comment #4 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> 2013-07-16 00:42:59 EDT --- Huh. Well that's not good. Can you post your /proc/cpuinfo and the output of dmidecode? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c5 Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de | --- Comment #5 from Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> 2013-07-16 06:38:08 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=548090) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=548090) See the name ... output of dmidecode .... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c6 --- Comment #6 from Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> 2013-07-16 06:38:52 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=548091) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=548091) See the name ... contents of cpuinfo ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #548090|video/mpeg |text/plain mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment #548091|video/mpeg |text/plain mime type| | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c7 --- Comment #7 from Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> 2013-07-16 08:55:11 UTC --- Hold on, this is a baremetal box and the balloon is supposed to run in the guest, right? So you have to be booting this kernel as a guest on a vmware hypervisor in order for the balloon to even load successfully... Or am I missing something...? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c8 --- Comment #8 from Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> 2013-07-16 09:15:30 UTC --- Hi Borislav, this is a regular openSUSE 12.2 running Windows in a Window, so I boot the kernel and start vmware afterwards from X11 in order to get XP running in a VM. Therefore I guess the module ought to be loadable, isn't it? Take care Dieter Jurzitza -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c9 --- Comment #9 from Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.com> 2013-07-16 09:49:56 UTC --- Right, and I think in that case it should be the other way around. The balloon should be running in the guest (windoze) and in-/deflating there. Which would mean, you'd need to install vmtools in the guest and start the balloon there, AFAICT. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823354#c10 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #10 from Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> 2013-07-24 16:03:11 EDT --- Yes, that's exactly how it's supposed to work. The balloon changes size in the guest to allow the host to reclaim memory. Closing as INVALID. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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