rocky-tools VS open-vm-tools

Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...

An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh

We have a conversion script for 9 here.

https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky

I used Rocky Linux to migrate the CentOS 8 Servers, the migration was just done using the migrate2rocky.sh script from https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky.

You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.

If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.

I run the migration script today and I encountered this pellicular error:

migrate2rocky.sh is a 1200 line bash script that appears to call dnf dozens of times. Granted, at the time he didn't know exactly what the migration path was going to look like, so call this one a broken promise rather than a false statement.

It's covered in Rocky's docs and the migrate2rocky README, relevant excerpt here:

Install open-vm tools (this enables a slew of optimizations).

Kudos to Raviu56 on github

I’m trying to try out Guiz in a VM (specifically VMware), and am unable to build open-vm-tools; I’m currently trying to setup a build environment using: guix shell gcc-toolchain glibc libmspack

I can't say why Alpine Linux doesn't have that package. My guess its due to being a security focused distro it omits it because it could be seen as a security issue. If you absolutely want to use Alpine Linux you could try building it from source (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/) or us the VMware Tools ISO: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1018414

I am wondering if someone have news about the updates of the open-vm-tools package for Rocky Linux (v8.6 or 9) I am trying to update them to fix the CVE 2022-31676. They are available on github but need to be compiled manually (nightmare to maintain later in a professional env) and fedore released an rpm package as well.

Avec la backdoor VMware ahah.

So I think you're hitting this issue.

Check the perfromance with open-vm-tools installed. https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools