Re: VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

On Tuesday 01 January 2008 05:12:24 pm Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:03:49PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2008 12:42 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > > > FYI, the tools are currently being packaged for CentOS: > > > > > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/open-vm-tools/ > > > > I'm not familiar with non-RHEL packages in CentOS. Does this mean they > > are going to be submitted to Livna when ready? > > I would guess they are destined for the centosplus repository (contains > things like rebuilt kernels with added features, etc). They also are > preparing a kernel-vm kernel using 100Hz interrupts vs 1000. The latest RHEL4 and RHEL5 kernels have a tick divider kernel parameter you can pass in to essentially get a 100Hz kernel... Hrm, maybe that isn't slated to be out 'til 5.2 and 4.7 though...