Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 1/11/2009 at  5:38 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:07:25PM +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> > > Do you mean there's a kernel in the kernel-base rpm, that is intented
> > > for virtualised environments?
> > Yes, it can be used that way.
> >
> > But note, it doesn't have the vmware drivers as they violate the GPL and
> > can not be redistributed, and virtualbox drivers, well, let's just say
> > some of us looked at that code, and ran away screaming :)
>
> Greg, I hope you're kidding ;)
>
> We have open-vm-tools KMPs in the distribution, which brings all the drivers 
> for a VMware session you possibly might need. All nicely under GPL.
>
> Did I misunderstand your statement?
>
> Dominique

I had some minor issues with open-vm-tools on 11.1 with VMware
Workstation 6.5.1 and ended up having to use the proprietary ones that
come with 6.5.1. I haven't had a chance to do the troubleshooting
necessary to file a bug yet. But neither the open-vm-tools nor the
VMware ones would do Unity mode when the guest was running 11.1 with a
Gnome desktop, both of them would do Unity mode when the guest was
running 11.1 with an XFCE desktop, but only the VMware-supplied version
would do shared files with the host.
-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P), WOM

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.
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