2022 年 7 月 – Virtual Tips

2022.07.20，VMware Flings上，ESXi Arm Edition 又更新了，此次1.10版本有以下更新：

Note: Upgrade is NOW supported from earlier ESXi-Arm 1.x Fling releases

Upgrade from earlier ESXi-Arm 1.x Fling is now supported
Support for Arm DEN0115 (PCIe config space access via firmware interface, tested with Raspberry Pi)
Report L3 cache info for Ampere eMAG
Minor improvements to non-cache coherent DMA support
Raspberry Pi NIC (genet) statistics
GOS: use VNXNET3 and PVSCSI as default for freebsd12
Support for RK3566 SBCs (e.g. Quartz64)
- PCIe support (NVMe not supported at this time)
- EQOS (onboard) NIC support
Fix missing barriers for Intel igbn NIC driver, improving stability
Return zero for unknown sys_reg(3, 0, 0, x, y) accesses from VMs
Telemetry reporting – Collect statistics on what kind of systems the Fling is being run on, to best gauge interest
- No PII is collected. Here are items collected:
  - CPU info: core count, NUMA, manufacturer, etc.
  - Firmware info: vendor, version
  - Platform info: vendor, product, UUID, PCI device list
  - ESXi-Arm info: version, patch level, product build
  - The /bin/telemetry script runs on every boot and at 00:00 every Saturday

Build 20133114
VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-20133114.aarch64.iso

其中最重要的就是，从这个版本开始，支持从旧版本更新安装了。（此前只能全新安装新版本。）本人把两个树莓派从旧版本直接更新安装到1.10.

另外changelog 中提到了此版本会对系统的统计数据进行收集

虽然提到了 No PII (Personal Identifiable Information) is collected. 但如果对此数据收集有担心的话，可以去crontabs里禁用此计划任务。

也可以去/bin/telemetry.py 进行修改，或者把发送数据的方法调用注释掉，不被main执行就可以了。查看此python脚本我们也间接的学会了一些系统统计数据的查看办法。

月度归档： 2022 年 7 月