On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 3/6/2008 at 01:08, Sunny <sloncho@gmail.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org