[OpenIndiana-discuss] vmware-tools and openindiana - broken in ESXi 5.0u2 and 5.1 ?

[Piotr Kaminski]

Hi,

I have just subscribed to the list.
I will be looking for your help and will try to be helpful for you.

Here below is the copy of message I posted yesterday on VMware ESXi 5.0
forums: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2168732
I got an aswer that OI is unsupported guest.

I believe many of you use OI extensively as a guest OS under ESXi.
I am desperately looking for help.


Hi,
 
I have several ESXi 5.0 boxes. I use virtualized openindiana on them. I
always install vmware-tools.
When ESXi 5.1 came out, I upgraded one of my boxes with 5.1 and
vmware-tools inside it (from 8.5 to 9.0).
I was not happy, as OI machine always crashed on shutdown or reboot -
either issued by shutdown command or by vmtools.
After some time, I reverted back to 5.0u1.
Yesterday I upgraded the same box to ESXi 5.0u2 and vmware-tools to 8.6.
I got the same behaviour with OI vm.
I tried the same on completely different box - HP ML350G6. Result was
exactly the same - kernel crash on every reboot/shutdown.
I believe something is terribly wrong and OI151a7 and vmware-tools 8.6
or 9.0 do not work properly.
 
Is it working properly for anyone?
Regards,
Piotr