VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

[Ray Van Dolson]

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.

Ray