Here’s a handy PDF, showing a step-by-step procedure for resizing the “/” root partition on a Linux VM guest.  Please note, that the guest was running a Red Hat based OS. http://www.lavmug.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Resize-root-partition-with-LVM.pdf Thanks, Will Tweet

Here is the list:

* hidd – Human Interface Daemon for Bluetooth.

* bluetooth – Bluetooth Daemon.

* smartd – Disk Drive monitoring service. Not needed on VM guests.

* cups – Linux printing Daemon.

* ip6tables – IPv6 firewall Daemon.

* iptables – IPv4 firewall Daemon.

* avahi-daemon – Facilitates service discovery on a local network, Bonjour, Win-Plug-N-Play.

* libvirtd – Xen virtualization framework. Starts mDNS daemon and DHCP server. PLEASE turn this off.

* rhn-virtualization-host – Xen virtualization framework. PLEASE turn this off.

*** You can view the state of these services by typing:

# chkconfig –list | more
# chkconfig –list | grep

Ex: chkconfig –list | grep cups

You will then see the current state of each service at every run-level.

*** To disable these services type:
# chkconfig off

Ex: chkconfig cups off

I have noticed that with the default install of Red Hat Linux EL 5 a lot of services/daemons are running that DO NOT need to be. These services can “eat up” resources; and, in some cases, cause stability issues. Here is the list: * hidd – Human Interface Daemon for Bluetooth. * bluetooth – Bluetooth [...]

SR Description: Getting error on a Linux VM guest, kernal vmware HGFS, HGFS is disabled in the host.

*** HGFS mounts allow the VM guest to connect to a share hosted on the ESX server/host. It is installed when the VMware Tools service is installed. This is a non-essential process and can be removed from /etc/fstab on the VM guest.

You can comment out the line that starts with .hosts…

Thanks,
Will

HGFS is disabled in the host (on boot, in logs, when restarting NFS/mounts) SR Description: Getting error on a Linux VM guest, kernal vmware HGFS, HGFS is disabled in the host. *** HGFS mounts allow the VM guest to connect to a share hosted on the ESX server/host. It is installed when the VMware Tools [...]