Hello All,
I am using Ubuntu on VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ (ESXi) 5.0, now when I update Ubuntu core (Kernel) do I need to re-install these VMware tools? Are they built for specific or get compiled for specific kernel? Because when we install them we have to build them from source using "make install" and they look for Kernel version/path.
So if I am upgrading Ubuntu distribution from 11.10 to 12.04 beta2 or from 12.04 beta1 to beta2 where Kernel file get updated do I need to re-install VMware tools?
VMware tools claims to improve network and some other performances and I have measured them by benchmark so they are worth installing initially but I am not sure whether I need to make install them every time I do an Distribution upgrade or not? Because doing it on 20 nodes will be hectic job.
Another question: After dist-upgrade, when I try adding any new package using apt-get it gives me following message as advice:
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-3.2.0-17 libjpeg-progs
linux-headers-3.2.0-17-generic libjpeg-turbo-progs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
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I am sorry, I might sound like novice but it is better to ask experts here rather than messing up with all the setups. I am afraid that all the software installed earlier using make install will work as they might have dependencies with old version of kernel or linux headers?
Please advice.
Thanks in Advance.
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