On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Hello, list! > > I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, > I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: > > * vmware-tools > > * open-vm-tools > > * open-vm-tools-kmod > > What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use > VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET?
As I understand things, open-vm-tools is just an open-source version of vmware-tools, but uses the same code base and is managed by VMWare. Both of them should have the modules you want. Unless you have a compelling reason to use the pre-built stuff from the vmware-tools tarball I'd go with the open-vm-tools one. --Mike
