Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:46:11 -0400 From: Michael Jung <mikej@mikej.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net>, =?UTF-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing a zpool as a VMware ESXi guest ... Message-ID: <5ca164a5bdd2d44d0b60a7fab5066fa2@mail.mikej.com> In-Reply-To: <DE8844AA-7DC3-44C9-BEF4-A45DFD0A966A@gmail.com> References: <543841B8.4070007@shrew.net> <20141016081016.GA4670@brick.home> <DE8844AA-7DC3-44C9-BEF4-A45DFD0A966A@gmail.com>
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On 2014-10-16 04:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:10, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz@FreeBSD.org> >> wrote: > >> "camcontrol rescan" does not force fetching the updated disk size. >> AFAIK there is no way to do that. However, this should happen >> automatically, if the "other side" properly sends proper Unit >> Attention >> after resizing. No idea why this doesn't happen with VMWare. >> Reboot obviously clears things up. >> >> [..] > > Is open-vm-tools installed? > > I ask because if I don't have it installed and the kernel modules > loaded, VMware doesn't notify the guest OS of disks being > added/removed. > > Also, what disk controller are you using? > > Cheers. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I duplicated this behavior. According to gpart The virtual disk does not grow until the freebsd guest is rebooted. FreeBSD freebsd10 10.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p6 #0: Tue Jun 24 07:47:37 UTC 2014 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC pkg info -- amd64 open-vm-tools-nox11-1280544_8,1 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests ESXi reported -- Running, version:2147483647 (3rd-party/Independent) ESXi-5.5-1331820(A00) Guest Hardware version 10 789 - S 0:00.54 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/ Id Refs Address Size Name 1 12 0xffffffff80200000 15f03b0 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff81a12000 5209 fdescfs.ko 3 1 0xffffffff81a18000 2198 vmmemctl.ko 4 1 0xffffffff81a1b000 23d8 vmxnet.ko 5 1 0xffffffff81a1e000 2bf0 vmblock.ko 6 1 0xffffffff81a21000 81b4 vmhgfs.ko --mikej
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