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  Post edited by: MauroBonder

• "VMWare Tools: unmanaged" is displayed on the summary VI Client.

  Hello

  I'm building a Virtual Appliance using VMWare Studio 2.0, with Ubuntu 8.04 - 1 as the guest operating system. This unit will be certified 'VMWare Ready'... If all goes well...

  The problem is the VMWare tools are reported as "Not run" in the client summary VI. Anyone know if this is acceptable? What are the downsides to it being 'unmanaged '? VMWare tools that were installed were the default values for this particular os guest, who are the open-vmware-tools.

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  draygen

  draygen wrote:

  >

  > Hi,.

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  > I'm building a Virtual Appliance using VMware Studio 2.0, with Ubuntu 8.04 - 1 as the guest operating system. This unit will be certified 'VMware Ready'... If all goes well...

  >

  >

  > The problem is the VMware tools are reported as "Not run" in the client summary VI. Anyone know if this is acceptable? What are the downsides to it being 'unmanaged '? VMWare tools that were installed were the default values for this particular os guest, who are the open-vmware-tools.

  >

  >

  > Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  >

  >

  > Thank you,

  >

  >

  > draygen

  >

  >

  As the author of the test VRVAP matrix / guidelines, I am happy to answer:

  "Unmanaged" is a valid state for VMware Tools and indicates that some other mechanisms that the classic "interactive/scriptable" VMware Tools installer engine is responsible for maintaining components ' tools '.

  It's what I expected to see most of the new virtual appliances, subject to the evaluation/validation via the ready program virtual VMware.

  Usually the State "unmanaged" is triggered by one of the three cases:

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  The salient bit is at the end of the TC 2570 VMware Tools - General.

  The basic set of operating system components invited side feature called "VMware Tools" MUST be present, activated and functioning properly. Additional information defining this requirement are covered in case of test 2571 by 2579. The version number and compilation VMware specific ABI to use Tools are not prescribed.

  -

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