Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 3/6/2008 at 01:08, Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I always try new test releases in a VMware virtual machines. The
> current opensuse 11.0 alpha 2 fails to compile the supplied
> vmware-tools modules, as the VMware package does not support 2.6.24
> kernels.
>
> VMWare have open-sourced the tools here:
> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ 
>
> I have tried to build from these sources, and the modules build OK and
> integrated in 10.0 alpha2.
>
> So, I suggest that an rpm is build out of these sources, and included
> as standard with any opensuse release, so it can flawlessly be used in
> virtual machines.

I think actually that would be a good idea... after all, VMWare is a high used 
platform for testing... and maybe we can have some RPM magic yast magic to 
detect WMWare running and Supplement' the RPM in this case? I know that with 
several other hardware devices, this works too...

If nobody else did so, I can start to build some RPMs (and maintain later too) 
in my home: Project. A later move to some other project (until up to the base 
distro where it would make most sense) could then be discussed.

Dominique

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