{"id":144,"date":"2013-05-07T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-09-25T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:57:08","slug":"debian-squeeze-wheezy-dist-upgrade-and-vmware-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/archives\/144","title":{"rendered":"Debian Squeeze->Wheezy dist-upgrade and VMware tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you run Debian 6 (Squeeze) under an VMware Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0+) with VMware Tools installed and you want to upgrade to Debian 7 (Wheezy) make sure you uninstall VMware tools in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Several machines did not boot up after the upgrade with the 3.2.x kernel and hanged forever just after &#8220;Switching to guest configuration&#8221;. I always create snapshots in advance of major upgrades. So there was no data loss, however, the whole upgrade process had to be restarted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint:<\/strong> Starting with Debian 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net\/\"><em>open-vm-tools<\/em><\/a> are included in the official Debian repository: This package is an open source replacement for VMware tools and fits perfectly into the Debian system (e.g. post kernel update triggers). IIRC the open-vm-tools package is also included in the official Ubuntu repository (12.04 LTS has a recent version) &#8211; there is also an old version in 10.04 LTS included, however, I never tested that. VMware hypervisor detects it as a &#8220;third party&#8221;\/&#8221;manually maintained&#8221; VMware tools package and provides the usual options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2013-09-25:<\/strong> I&#8217;m using open-vm-tools since May and had no problems so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you run Debian 6 (Squeeze) under an VMware Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0+) with VMware Tools installed and you want to upgrade to Debian 7 (Wheezy) make sure you uninstall VMware tools in advance. Several machines did not boot up after the upgrade with the 3.2.x kernel and hanged forever just after &#8220;Switching to guest configuration&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7,13],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs-ware.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}