Here's a copy of a bugzilla report I just posted, I'm curious if anybody else has seen this problem. Anders. ------- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702224 Summary: vmtoolsd will not run in VMware guest Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Milestone 2 Platform: VMWare OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: anders@norrbring.se QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 I run VMware Server 2.0.1 on a openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 host. On the host I run several openSUSE 11.3 guest machines which all works fine. But in a guest with openSUSE 11.4 or 12.1 MS2 x86_64, the vmtoolsd will not start. In the guests /var/log/messages I get this entry: vmsvc[2240]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmsvc service needs to run inside a virtual machine. So apparently the open-vm-tools do not recognize the guest virtual machine as a VMware guest. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSUSE 11.4 or 12.1 MS2 x86_64 with kernel 'default' 2. Install open-vm-tools and vmware-guest-kmp-default 3. Try to start vmtoolsd Actual Results: vmtoolsd will not start and give this error in the messages log vmsvc[2240]: [ warning] [vmtoolsd] The vmsvc service needs to run inside a virtual machine. Expected Results: I expect vmtoolsd to run. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org