On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 4:37 AM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the info. FYI, copy/paste and resize have usually worked > for me, but broke with the most recent updates. > Yes we should investigate the possibility to ship a more comprehensive package. Unfortunately I have no access to any VMware solution but I'll be happy to assist with the component and publish testing packages to xorg-testing if there is any interest. The input handling seems to have been reworked in Xorg 1.19. I am not sure how it can affect though. > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Michael Kruger <makruger2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 11/27/2017 10:54 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: > >> > >> I tried after another update yesterday. Same problem. > >> > >> After a little more experimenting, and I noticed that copy/paste > >> between the Windows host and the guest no longer work either. > >> As I understand it, both copy/paste and resize involve an interaction > >> between the hypervisor and the guest, and the vmware tools ("guest > >> additions") are a key part of the "plumbing" for those interactions. > >> Given that discovery, I suspect this is likely to be a compatibility > >> problem between the vmware Xorg driver and the vmware tools (provided > >> by vmware). > >> I wonder if it would be worth trying to build one of the "open vmware > >> tools" open-source packages. > >> Anyone have suggestions which to try? > > > > > > Hi Gordon, > > > > I personally have not had the best of luck when installing vmware tools > on > > OpenIndiana. Regardless of whether it was ESXi or the workstation player, > > the screen never auto-resized for me, and the mouse, once captured, would > > not escape the VM without doing a CRTL + ALT. No matter what I tried, > Xorg > > just wouldn't load the virtual mouse driver. > > > > I also noticed the mouse does not work at all when using the new > > ESXI/VSphere web client. This came up in discussion last year. > > > > This is actually pretty important because from esxi 6.5U1 onwards, the > C++ > > based vsphere client no longer works. > > > > Most newer Linux distributions (Centos 7, Mint 18, Fedora, etc.) seem to > be > > shipping with these capabilities already build in. Presumably they are > all > > using open-vm-tools, but that's purely conjecture on my part. > > > > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools > > > > A search of the OI-discuss archives suggests there was once such a > package. > > > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > > oi-dev mailing list > > oi-dev@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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