sancome Posted February 18, 2015 #1 Posted February 18, 2015 by using this spk, will display the DNS name and IP address in the vmware client, and reboot, shutdown and boot the virtual machine, rather than directly off the power. I recompiled it with the DSM 5.1 toolchain, if you encounter problems using the gnoboot's version(open-vm-tools-bromolow-9.4.0-1280544-50), you can try to replace. In the following environment test pass: VMWare Workstation 11.0 VMWare ESXi 5.5 update2 the latest vesion is "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.4.6-1770165-3.spk" Download here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa BTW: there is a "shairport_bromolow-5.1_1.1.1-1.spk" file in the Dropbox, if you want to streaming music from you iPhone or iPad to the NAS with Airplay, you will like this spk. Quote
Balrog Posted February 19, 2015 #4 Posted February 19, 2015 Thank you very much for the new vmtools!! I just updated coming from "open-vm-tools-bromolow-9.4.0-1280544-50.spk" to your new version "5.1_9.4.6-1770165-3" (of course with first deinstall the old tools and afterwards install the new tools). The vm is already on the newest XPEnoboot 5.1-5022.2 with the latest Update "DSM 5.1-5022 Update 2". It works out of the box without a reboot of the vm. Now the IP-Address and DNS-Name from the vm is shown correctly in the vsphere client and as OS there is now "Linux 3.2.40 XPenology DSM". Restarting and Poweroff from the vsphere client works like a charm. Very good work! *thumbs up* Quote
jms667 Posted February 21, 2015 #5 Posted February 21, 2015 Thank you Sancome Working fine on a ESXi 5.5.0 (no update) host. Quote
Guest MPaladin Posted February 24, 2015 #6 Posted February 24, 2015 Hello, I'm feeling stupid with this update because it was working before updating DSM to 5.1 when I was in 5.0 with open-vm-tools 9.4.0 When I use this new version, it doesn't work I'm in ESXI 5.5 update 1, am I missing something ? Quote
ganddy Posted February 28, 2015 #7 Posted February 28, 2015 Trying the update next week. Fingers crossed. Quote
nellor Posted February 28, 2015 #8 Posted February 28, 2015 I had problems with open-vm-tools-bromolow-9.4.0-1280544-50 and DSM 5.0-4458 Update 2. When I try to shutdown the virtual machine via the vSphere Client. I received the following error: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault After using this version (open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.4.6-1770165-3) all seems to work. Thank you very much. By the way, I use a HP Gen8 micro server with VMware ESXi 5.5 (Update 2). Quote
denosa Posted April 7, 2015 #9 Posted April 7, 2015 @sancome: Would it be possible that you release a compiled package based on open-vm-tools v9.10.0 ? Quote
sancome Posted April 9, 2015 Author #10 Posted April 9, 2015 @sancome: Would it be possible that you release a compiled package based on open-vm-tools v9.10.0 ? the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa Quote
denosa Posted April 12, 2015 #11 Posted April 12, 2015 @sancome: Would it be possible that you release a compiled package based on open-vm-tools v9.10.0 ? the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa thank you so much, this was really quick ! Quote
unmesh Posted May 9, 2015 #13 Posted May 9, 2015 I did a manual install of open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1 while I had open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.4.6-1770165-3 installed and now Package Center does not show open-vm-tools installed. When I try to reinstall it, Package Center says it is already installed. Any ideas about getting this working again will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Quote
epicurean Posted June 26, 2015 #14 Posted June 26, 2015 @sancome: Would it be possible that you release a compiled package based on open-vm-tools v9.10.0 ? the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa Thanks Sancome! Quote
epicurean Posted June 26, 2015 #15 Posted June 26, 2015 @sancome: Would it be possible that you release a compiled package based on open-vm-tools v9.10.0 ? the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa Thanks Sancome! Quote
rellew Posted September 27, 2015 #16 Posted September 27, 2015 Hi Sancome, thx for your efforts, but I get only errors when I'm trying to shutdown or reboot my XPEnology. Used both, the 9.4.6 and 9.10 versions, they both are installed fine in the XPEnology, but when I'm trying to shutdown or reboot the VM in ESXi I get these errors: Vix Errorcode 1 and 3009. Both must mean, that the script can't be run? Using ESXi 5.5 Update 2 and the latest 5.2 XPEnology Release. Hopefully you can help. Quote
OzTechGeek Posted September 28, 2015 #17 Posted September 28, 2015 the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa sancome, open-vm-tools-10.0.0-3000743.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/open-vm-tools/stable-10.0.x/open-vm-tools-10.0.0-3000743.tar.gz/download was released on 2015-09-10, would it be possible to get an updated package please? if it is easier, would it be possible to provide step-by-step instructions on compiling open-vm-tools ourselves? Thanks for all your great work. Quote
OzTechGeek Posted September 28, 2015 #18 Posted September 28, 2015 the "open-vm-tools_bromolow-5.1_9.10.0-2476743-1.spk" has been released, you can download it from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr8d24zqchzs ... p4gaJAfiTa sancome, open-vm-tools-10.0.0-3000743.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/open-vm-tools/stable-10.0.x/open-vm-tools-10.0.0-3000743.tar.gz/download was released on 2015-09-10, would it be possible to get an updated package please? if it is easier, would it be possible to provide step-by-step instructions on compiling open-vm-tools ourselves? Thanks for all your great work. Quote
berwhale Posted September 30, 2015 #19 Posted September 30, 2015 I've just built a new server running EXSi 6.0, hosting multiple XPEnology VMs, so I'm keen to get the latest tools packaged. As far as I can tell, we need to use the cross compilation framework here: https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc I'll have a go at spinning up a Debian VM and trying this out this tonight. Quote
rellew Posted September 30, 2015 #20 Posted September 30, 2015 Good luck, berwhale. Would be great to hear from you and if everything went fine. Maybe this will help me get my open-vm-tools to work. Greetings Quote
berwhale Posted September 30, 2015 #21 Posted September 30, 2015 OK, I've built an Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit vm and updated it. I've installed the SynoCommunity packaging framework and I've managed to successfully compile a package from the syno git repo (Transmission) for the bromolow architecture (which is what XPEnology needs). In order to compile open-vm-tools, I think I need to clone the git repo for open-vm-tools, create a makefile and then compile it for bromolow. I think the skill is in creating the makefile (the open-vm-tools documentation mentions GNU automake - which I have no idea how to use, yet) I've run out of time today, I may get a chance to take another look at the week-end. Quote
frols Posted October 7, 2015 #22 Posted October 7, 2015 Did you succeed? I've been following this thread for soem time and really interested in finding a solution! Quote
berwhale Posted October 10, 2015 #23 Posted October 10, 2015 Sorry, I've not had time to look at this again or play with vSphere much either Quote
komarto Posted November 24, 2015 #24 Posted November 24, 2015 sancome New version is out open-vm-tools-10.0.5-3227872 can you compile it to SPK? Quote
dasmith83 Posted February 8, 2016 #25 Posted February 8, 2016 Hi guys...interesting read - i too have ESXi 6.0 with Xpenology running and have been looking for a way to use a UPS to gracefully shut the VMs and host down if required...looks like i have sourced a UPS, however need VM tools to be working. Did anyone succeed in getting open vm tools working on esxi 6 with Xpenology? Thanks in advance Quote
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