Disclaimer: I don’t take any responsibility for faults within the software, I just provide the RPM’s! Feel free to ask me about stuff concerning these RPM’s, but I ain’t accountable if your stuff goes kaboom … Oh, and those RPM’s aren’t recommended or supported by Novell or IBM!
After working with the novell-kmp solution, I think it’s actually rather easy to create a “Kernel Module Package“. In the end, I created two additional KMP’s, one for the tools component of the VMware-Tools shipped with VMware ESX, and another for the lin_tape SCSI driver, used by our IBM TS3400 as well as the IBM TS7530.
Some parts (especially the build system used within the VMware kernel modules) took some figuring out/playing around, but I actually got it working. Now each time I update the VMware-Tools I just need to install the new RPM, tada! No need for a fully fledged build environment on every box.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10:
- ibm-lin_tape-1.24.0_2.6.16.60_0.37_f594963d-0.1 (i586, x86_64,
SRPM)- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-bigsmp (i586)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-debug (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-default (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-kdump (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-kdumppae (i586)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-smp (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-vmi (i586)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-vmipae (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-3.5.0_153875_2.6.16.60_0.37_f594963d-0.1 (
SRPM)- vmware-tools-kmp-bigsmp (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-debug (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-default (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-kdump (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-kdumppae (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-smp (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-vmi (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-vmipae (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-xen (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-xenpae (i586)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11:
- ibm-lin_tape-1.24.0_2.6.27.21_0.1-0.1 (i586, x86_64,
SRPM)- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-debug (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-default (i586, x86_64)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-pae (i586)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-trace (i586)
- ibm-lin_tape-kmp-vm (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-3.5.0_153875_2.6.27.21_0.1-0.1 (
SRPM)- vmware-tools-kmp-debug (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-default (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-pae (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-trace (i586, x86_64)
- vmware-tools-kmp-vmi (i586)
- vmware-tools-kmp-xen (i586, x86_64)