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Old 05-05-2014, 09:27 AM   #16
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OK, did you perform full installation right?
What does it mean ?

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that means that you are using huge kernel, so that kernel panic thing shouldn't happen even after installing VMWare Tools, unless i missed something from your activities
I use a generic kernel, the problem can to come there ?

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Old 05-05-2014, 09:43 AM   #17
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during installation of Slackware, did you use full installation or do you select your packages yourself?

if you use generic kernel, you must also make an initrd since the generic kernel only support ext2 file system in it. If you use other than ext2, you will have to make initrd that contains your filesystem inside it and update your lilo configuration.
 
Old 05-05-2014, 09:53 AM   #18
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during installation of Slackware, did you use full installation or do you select your packages yourself?
In package selection screen I selected packages and next step I chose full installation.

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if you use generic kernel, you must also make an initrd since the generic kernel only support ext2 file system in it. If you use other than ext2, you will have to make initrd that contains your filesystem inside it and update your lilo configuration.
My scheme partition :
/boot ext2
/swap
/ ext4

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Old 05-05-2014, 12:18 PM   #19
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@Shkel: make an initrd (you know how to do that) and then configure LILO to boot on the generic kernel using your initrd.
 
Old 05-05-2014, 01:45 PM   #20
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@kikinovak : Yes I do, thank you master Slackware

@willysr : I rebuild an initrd after to install VMware Tools ?
But, if we use a huge kernel the installation of VMware Tools haven't need to make an initrd ?

In the installation of VMware Tools written modules in the kernel, this is why I have to rewrite it ?

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Old 05-05-2014, 03:51 PM   #21
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huge kernels doesn't need initrd since all modules are built statically inside the kernel
You need to build initrd before rebooting your system.
Vmware tools doesn't really care whether you use huge/generic kernel, as long as the could find the relevant kernel source to build their modules
Your current problem is because you don't make a initrd for your generic kernel

I would suggest to do full installation again and start fresh
This time, use huge kernel first and when all is done, you can start planning to move on generic kernels
 
Old 05-06-2014, 01:04 AM   #22
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Perfect, thank you willysr for the explication, I go to try with huge kernel in a first time and second time try to rebuild initrd after the installation of VMware Tools on a fresh/full installation.

I hold you informed again.
 
Old 05-06-2014, 02:31 AM   #23
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It works.
I just executed LILO after the installation of VMware Tools, reboot and generic kernel work very well.
I did not try with huge kernel yet but that should not to be a problem.

I deleted network and vmtoolsd.pid files for fixing the SSH connexions.
Works fine since host OS.

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Old 05-06-2014, 03:24 AM   #24
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glad it works
 
Old 05-06-2014, 03:33 AM   #25
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Thank you for your contribution willysr
 
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An alternative to the Red Hat targeted binary tools are the open source open-vm-tools. The userspace part of them works fine and the basic kernel support needed for VMware is already part of the vanilla kernel.

You could try the SlackBuild in the attached shell archive.
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File Type: txt open-vm-tools.shar.txt (15.9 KB, 228 views)
 
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