VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

[Ray Van Dolson]

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/

Ray