PV Linux Drivers

The Linux PV drivers for OpenXT are a DKMS package that is built/rebuilt on in the Linux guest.

Installation

This section comes from the OpenXT documentation but it presented here for convenience.

Note Do not install the OpenXT Tools on Linux using dpkg directly, nor by double-clicking on the package via the graphical desktop. Note that for this procedure:

• an internet connection is required
• the script must be executed as root
• the script will download 100 MB of kernel source files in order to build a new Linux graphics driver

1 At a command line shell on the VM, change users to become the superuser:

sudo su

2 Display the available drives with the command and Observe the name of the optical drive with the OpenXT Tools; it will be something like /media/Optical-tools-<version number>.

df -k

3 Change to the linux directory on the optical drive with the OpenXT Tools package:

cd /media/OpenXT-tools-<version number>/linux

4 Run the install.sh script:

./install.sh

5 Reboot the VM.

Note The UIVM for OpenXT will show the tools as installed, but a reboot is required to properly complete the Tools installation.