Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2225 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:48 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Terry,
>
> > > > On 11/3/2009 at 20:18, Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > I use VMware workstation and whenever I install it I have to remove some
> > of the vmware modules that are installed by default with opensuse. 

Same here.

> Best would be to verify what you have installed. openSUSE (I think starting 
> with 11.1) ships open-vm-tools, which also contains a set of kernel
> module (vmware-*kmp*.rpm).
> Those are intended for VMWARE GUEST only (that's why in 11.2 they have been 
> renamed to reflect this change). They should never be installed (and
> certainly not by default) on any non-vmwareg uest machine (the kmp is pulled 
> in by hardware identifiers).

I use VMWare workstation. It comes with kernel drivers, and even
automatically re-compiles/reloads them if I start VMWare after changing
the kernel. All rather painless and automatic.

My question is: what is the advantage of the open-vm-tools over the
stuff that comes with VMware?

I always uninstall the vm tools that come with openSUSE. They seems to
get installed by default (in, say, 11.0). Is that still the case? It
seemed to install only kernel modules. Which, on their own, are rather
useless.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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