Open vmtools for dsm 6.1 on esxi 6.5

[cool_dude 0]

Does anyone have openvm spk for dsm 6.1?

Or Have instructions to create spk from openvm tools

[yale-xpo 2]

I wanted open-vm-tools / vmware tools installed on my xpenology nas running on top of ESXi, mainly so i could press the power button on the host and still have the DSM guest shutdown safely. The thought of compiling and installing a custom spk for open-vm-tools seemed to complicated and risky, so instead I created a Docker image that solves the problem.

 

https://github.com/yale-wp/docker-xpenology-open-vm-tools

 

The only thing required to run this docker container is the Official Synology Docker package and for SSH to be enabled. Once the container is running shutdown/restart from ESXi will work and networking information will be returned.

 

[haydibe 12]

https://mega.nz/#!K55GECQb!mgpln1JirxKmicjSugRyPQQb68H0QHZzV7e0qnuaiLI (ds3615)

https://mega.nz/#!P1IFVLYR!zIDgtkEuyzEMhFNGC45QGnBRezcxDyk4WbaxTLtRYSU (ds3617)

 

The ds3617 was "patched" is basicly the same as the ds3615 spk, just with changed support for the target environment.

 

 

The Docker Container solution simply wrappes the shutdown hook from openvmtools and uses ssh to access XPE via shell to trigger the shutdown process there. Clever solution that is. Though, I prefer to use the spk in XPE directly.

 

Edited September 15, 2017 by haydibe

[4sag 29]

open-vm-tools 6.1_10.1.15

http://spk.4sag.ru/

[Balrog 10]

@4sag: Thank you very much! The tools are working.

[haydibe 12]

@4sag: thanks for sharing

[repulse 3]

On 11/11/2017 at 8:25 AM, 4sag said:

open-vm-tools 6.1_10.1.15

http://spk.4sag.ru/

 

Could it be used on ESXI 6.0 ? Running on Microserver Gen8 with dsm6.

[repulse 3]

On 07/12/2017 at 9:29 PM, repulse said:

 

Could it be used on ESXI 6.0 ? Running on Microserver Gen8 with dsm6.

 

No one ?

[ildaru 0]

it works, HP Microserv G8 => Esxi 6.5u1=>DSM 6.1.5-15254

[raumi20 0]

HDD hibernation working with the open vm tools? I think it hold my HDD`s up because it try every second to determine the OS version and failed...

[raumi20 0]

Open-vm-tools spk poduce to much failures and spam logs..

 

Docker Container is working perfect! Now HDD hibernation working also.

 

 Thank you for your work!

[flyride 131]

On 3/9/2018 at 6:59 PM, raumi20 said:

Open-vm-tools spk poduce to much failures and spam logs..

 

Solution to the logfile spam problem:

 

1) cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release

2) edit /var/packages/open-vm-tools/scripts/start-stop-status, and comment out these lines:

#               if [ -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then
#                       echo "$(date) vmtoolsd ($(cat  ${PIDFILE})) is running..." >> ${LOGFILE}
#               else
#                       echo "$(date) vmtoolsd is not running..." >> ${LOGFILE}
#               fi

 

On 9/15/2017 at 7:59 PM, yale-xpo said:

I wanted open-vm-tools / vmware tools installed on my xpenology nas running on top of ESXi, mainly so i could press the power button on the host and still have the DSM guest shutdown safely. The thought of compiling and installing a custom spk for open-vm-tools seemed to complicated and risky, so instead I created a Docker image that solves the problem.

Any chance to make the SSH port configurable?