Init script hangs on EC2 in vmware-checkvm
Bug #737668 reported by
Ed Swierk
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: open-vm-tools
Running an Ubuntu 10.10 UEC VM on Amazon EC2 (ami-b7e4b4f2), installing the open-vm-tools package (2010.06.
The script runs vmware-checkvm to see whether it's running on VMware. This program tries to read from a magic IO port 0x5658, but this just hangs when running on EC2.
Assuming the problem is Xen and not EC2 specifically, either the init script or vmware-checkvm.c could test for the existence of the /proc/xen directory before attempting the IO port read.
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I'm marking this confirmed based on xen.1045712. n5.nabble. com/Re- ioctl-00005382- not-supported- by-Xen- blkdev- td2563654. html
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The added check seems like a good idea. Would you be willing to contact the upstream vmware developers to see if they are willing to add it?