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    "Guest tools status"

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    • B Offline
      blueh2o
      last edited by

      When importing a machine from VMware, Xen Orchestra says "Guest Tools status: The tools are installed." It says this for VMs where VMware tools are not installed.. and furthermore why does it matter when they need to be removed anyway? I'm not understanding what this message is for.

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        kruess
        last edited by

        Hi,

        Similar to VMware, XCP-ng is also coming with its own 'guest tools', which enables the full feature-set on VMs. This message is only about those XCP guest tools, so after you install them, the message will disapear.

        BfN, -k

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          blueh2o @kruess
          last edited by

          @kruess That doesn't make sense. It should say the tools are NOT installed.

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            kruess @blueh2o
            last edited by

            @blueh2o
            Ooops, sorry - I read your message the wrong way around. You're right, that sounds really weird in your case.... 😕

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              poddingue Vates 🪐 @kruess
              last edited by poddingue

              I think the Guest Tools status in XO is only ever about the XCP-ng/Xen guest tools, not VMware's, so right after a VMware import, it should read "not installed" until you install the XCP-ng ones (the docs describe the field here: https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/xo5/manage_infrastructure#guest-tools-status ).
              So you're right that showing "the tools are installed" on a freshly-imported VM with nothing installed sounds wrong, not just confusing.
              I'm not sure what XO keys off to decide that, so I could be missing something. If you see it on every imported VM, or can say whether the source VMware VMs had VMware tools or open-vm-tools on them, that would help pin it down, and it might be worth a mention to @Team-XO-Backend to check whether it reproduces on their side.

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                kruess
                last edited by

                Maybe, the view from hypervisor level would be interesting, too:

                xenstore-ls -f | grep -i driver

                Will list the drivers for each domain.

                list_domains

                Gives the VM UUID for each domain id.

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