Hello! Recently, somebody (Sunny) requested some RPMs offering the open-vm-tools in our nice distribution [0]. I opted to create some packages and have a look into this. So here I am, just a few days later with a working (as for me, my house did not burn down) example of those packages. They can be found at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dimstar and are currently built for: openSUSE 10.3 stock openSUSE 10.3 updated openSUSE Factory (for factory, i586 fails to compile because of inconsistency within BS... for the moment, the kernel-source matching the kernel-syms can not be found but that will solve itself I guess.. it's just busy). There are two things to be installed in your VM: vmware-kmp-<kernelflavour> and open-vm-tools The KMP contains 5 kernel modules: vmblock vmhgfs mvmemctl vmsync vmxnet 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. A short discussion with coolo revealed that, if there is an internal co-maintainer willing to work with me on this, we could possibly push it inside the Distribution... the time would be great, we did not reach feature freeze yet. Anybody willing to go down this road together with me? Have a good time, Dominique [0] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-03/msg00068.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org