Re: VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:03:30PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > 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... And it would seem there are some issues with it -- as least as far as VMware is concerned: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 (At least per that discussion -- see towards the end) Sounds promising though once they get it right.