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@attglobal.net> 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. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org