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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #289921
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Comment 1 for bug 289921

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Sam Bisbee (sbisbee) wrote : Re: network interface does not come up after installing open-vm-tools

The bug here appears to be in the packaging, not the init script and/or code.

Example, I am using pcnet32/vmxnet with init.d. The upstream wiki says that I need to have the following in my modprobe config (I have it in modprobe.d/open-vm-tools):
install pcnet32 /sbin/modprobe -q --ignore-install vmxnet; /sbin/modprobe -q --ignore-install pcnet32 $CMDLINE_OPTS; /bin/true;
(source: http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging)

Without this, rebooting will cause the eth device to fail, as Craig described.