[Bug 67] Review Request: open-vm-tools - VMware Guest OS Tools

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67 --- Comment #15 from Denis Leroy <denis(a)poolshark.org&gt; 2008-10-28 11:01:53 --- Orcan, thanks for the help. I made some simple changes to only include the vmci_socket header file http://www.poolshark.org/src/open-vm-tools-0.0.0.123053-7.fc10.src.rpm http://www.poolshark.org/src/open-vm-tools.spec This is what is recommended by http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging and I know for a fact that drag'n'drop won't work without it. The other suid is used to launch the vmware-user desktop daemon. I can't really go into more technical details without asking upstream, but the nfs mount tool for example also has suid set. For vmware-user, possibly it could use PolicyKit but that would require some heavy patching. I can file a bug upstream and ask them to consider that approach instead of suid. As far as the "on by default", I do think it makes a lot of sense considering what open-vm-tools is. This package only makes sense for people using VMWare's linux guest OSes, and for those you expect the package to indeed just work after installation. For the development package, the installed header file is used to using VMCI sockets, but using them requires the vsock kernel module (it's loaded by the init script), so in a way, the development package also needs the init script to be started... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.