On Thursday 12 February 2009 01:42:11 Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > >>> On 2/12/2009 at 9:16 AM, "Dominique Leuenberger" > > <dominique.leuenber...@tmf-group.com> wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure how symlinking the two together will help, > > considering that vmware-user-suid-wrapper is starting vmware-user. Having > > them symlinked sounds like weird look. But for some reasons apparently > > it seems to work out for you. > > I think I'll replace the startup of vmware-user-suid-wrapper with a > > script that is trying test if the start succeeded, and if not try to > > restart it for a few times, with a sleep of 1 second or the like. > > A possible solution I just implemented here: > A script that tests for the existence of /proc/fs/vmblock/dev, if not there > sleeps for a short time (increasing) and then retries again. > > This seems to help me out for all the cases and it seemed (so far) always > to sleep long enough. The script is attached, so if you see something > completely weird / wrong, please let me know. > Always willing to improve it further. > > This script is now used in the /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user desktop > instead of vmware-user-suid-wrapper directly. So having one more > abstraction layer in between, taking care of everything working out the way > it should. >
What I don't like about this solution is that it adds yet another piece that needs to know where vmblock is mounted and when we move to FUSE-based implementation the mount point is going to change. Also, you still need to find a way to get vmware-user release/reacquire vmblock when you update open-vm-tools package unless you want to force user to restart their desktop. I wonder if we need to adjust the packaging guidelines with regard to vmware-user/vmware-user-suid-wrapper... -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
