Hi everybody,

I've been re-packaging the open-vm-tools 2009.04.23 snapshot for openSUSE. A 
short success / failure story:
- I switched our spec file to use the make install which is now provided 
(which, in turn, is still written in the README that it does not exist
btw).
  Works pretty well, had only very few issues (mainly to some libtool magic 
with rpath)

So, in short: I have RPMs that install fine. 

what works for me so far:
- Clipboard sharing
- Screen resizing
- Mouse in/out

What does not work:
- file Drag'n'drop from guest to host
- file Drag'n'Drop from host to guest

what I tried:
starting "vmtoolsd vmusr" seams not to daemonize at all (might be 
intentional... typically it's started from a .desktop file anyhow).
I think vmtoolsd vmusr is not yet ready, right?

so I went back and tested with vmware-user-suid-wrapper (which was the previous 
running version I used). This stars up, I can see it in ps ax,
together with a File Decriptor ID, but even with this running, drag'n'drop is 
not working. 

so could it be that this snapshot does not have a working Drag'n'Drop at all 
(probably due to the change from vmware-user to vmtoolsd) ?

also, in the packaging wiki is vmblock-fuse mentioned short, but I did not find 
any references to this.

Thanks for reading all this and maybe you have some hints / pointers or you 
have seen similiar problems in your snapshots? I'm sure I'm not the only
one packaging this piece up for any distro.

Dominique

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