the driver vmmemctl missing
Issue
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I'm trying to diagnose a problem that appears to be related to ballooning within the vmware ESX farm (I have no access to the ESX console or vSphere) - and the memory stats that I need should be available through /proc/vmmemctl (having read a couple of posts about this driver).
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However, the file is not present on this 6.4 box.
uname -a
Linux __HOSTNAME__ 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 14 15:48:21 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
modinfo vmware_balloon
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.ko
license: GPL
alias: vmware_vmmemctl
alias: dmi:*:svnVMware*:*
version: 1.2.1.1-k
description: VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: CD80C0B522E3BAB4BD22D29
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
ls -la /proc/vmmemctl
ls: cannot access /proc/vmmemctl: No such file or directory
rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/misc/vmware_balloon.ko
kernel-2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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