I am interested in adopting the open-vm-tools packages as described here: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/12/vmware-util-and-driver-packages.html I've been supporting RHEL for the past several years and building local RPMs. It looks like we are probably going to be deploying Macs running VMWare Fusion to developers so I have a strong personal interest in open-vm-tools working. However, I'm not too keen on livna only since I usually use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Does it sound reasonable to have it only in RPMFusion?

On 01.01.2008 20:55, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:22:37AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> I am interested in adopting the open-vm-tools packages as described here: >> >> http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/12/vmware-util-and-driver-packages.html >> >> I've been supporting RHEL for the past several years and building >> local RPMs. It looks like we are probably going to be deploying Macs >> running VMWare Fusion to developers so I have a strong personal >> interest in open-vm-tools working. However, I'm not too keen on livna >> only since I usually use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. >> Does it sound reasonable to have it only in RPMFusion? > FYI, the tools are currently being packaged for CentOS: > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/open-vm-tools/ Hehe, those are afaics based on http://install.linux.duke.edu/pub/linux/add-on/distrib/centos-5/SRPMS/ which are based on the RPMs submitted to Livna's bugzilla.

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?

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.

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.