[chef] Re: *** PROBABLY SPAM *** Re: anyone interested in a "hardware" cookbook?

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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:45:50 -0500, "Eric G. Wolfe" < > wrote:

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>  I am taking a guess that your vmware admin doesn't like the     "unmanaged" semantic that ESX reports when using the packages from     VMWare's own repository.  All that really means is vmware-tools is     not managed by ESX, the goal here is to manage that component with     Chef.  I would like to see the Windows piece be automated for this     space as well, since VMWare has the Windows packages out there in     their public repository.

Well, having tools unmanaged block the update from Virtual hardware 4 to 7, in this case you have to uninstall the repo tools and isntall manually before upgrading.

I also saw problems with tools being updated before the esx has been patched, causing latency into guest and even freeze.

So I also prefer to stick on the local package usually instead of using repo.