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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #289921
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 289921

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Travis Hegner (thegner) wrote : Re: network interface does not come up after installing open-vm-tools

Writing a simple bash script:

rmmod vmxnet
modprobe vmxnet
/etc/init.d/networking restart
exit 0

and adding to to launch from my rc.local worked for me.

Out of curiosity I removed the modprobe.d file that ravidgemole suggested and added vmxnet to my /etc/initramfs-tools/modules as Ruben suggested, and the tools fire up fine without messing with the module. (Thanks Ruben, easiest fix yet).

Unfortunately I believe I am now suffering from bug #306835 in which the vmware-guestd dameon only runs for about 1 minute and dies.

All that work for... well.... more work!

Still better than windows though!

Thanks guys,

Travis Hegner