VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Jan 1, 2008 2:12 PM, Ray Van Dolson 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 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.

Hmm, this does make things awkward since there would need to be
separate kmods for the stock kernel and kernel-vm. I'll see if I can figure
something out. I may even use CentOS for our VMs since ease of use
is important.