Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

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

Sunyny,

> > > On 3/9/2008 at 15:22, Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  open-vm-tools installs the service vmware-guest (get's automatically 
> activated) and the toolbox. In my tests, the mouse was after installation 
> freely going in and out the VM (normally one of the easiest indices that the 
> VM tools work), I could mount a shared host (mount.vmhgfs .host:/test /mnt) 
> and access it and the clipboard was shared between host and guest...
> >  so now I have to ask you fellows to help me improve it, to make it undergo 
> a lot of testing so we can convince coolo that he wants to include this 
> package in the upcoming alphas and betas and finals of openSUSE (ups... we 
> still don't have the procedures in place for community maintained packages).
> >  so for now that's it from my side... any sort of comment is highly 
> appreciated.
> >
>
> Hi Dominique,
> Thanks a bunch. Unfortunately, right now I have only factory in VM, so
> I can not test what you did. Maybe later today or tomorrow I'll
> install 10.3 to see how it works. Meanwhile - some questions and
> suggestions:

Well, factory just drifted to Kernel 2.6.25-rc1, which is not yet supported by 
the open-vm-tools. We can expect an update from the upstream project during 
this week though. The patch is available in the internal SVN of vmware already. 

> 1. Does the rpm installs the user scripts (power-off, reboot, etc.) in
> a proper locations (/etc/xxx)

All the files get installed as described on the open-vm-tools packaging 
guideline. So power-off and all those things are in /etc/vmware-tools

> 2. As you know, vmware-config-tools.pl (supplied with the "original"
> vm tools), besides that builds the modules, also makes changes in
> xorg.conf, so the resolution of the screen can me "auto" adjusted, if
> you resize the VM window. Do you plan this? I.e. maybe this is more
> for the upstream devs, if they decide to put this functionality in the
> "tools" application itself - I think it belongs there. Or I guess, it
> does not hurt if the post-install script of the rpm you build just
> modifies the xorg file with the highest possible resolution.

So far, I do not modify the config files. The graphic card is already perfectly 
detected by openSUSE 10.3 itself and a higher resolution can be set even 
without the tools (they infact to not contain a driver for Xorg). But still, 
the auto-adjust of the resolution is a nice thing... I'll have to check how 
this is achieved. I'm not sure the open-vm-tools support this already at this 
point in time.

> Cheers, and thanks again.

You're welcome... I hope the tools help you a bit.

Dominique

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