Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

> > > > 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.

Good idea! Yes please.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
 Andreas Vetter

Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie
Universitaet Wuerzburg              
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