Hi Chris, On Friday 30 October 2009 12:37:18 pm Chris Ridd wrote: > On 30 Oct 2009, at 15:26, Chris Ridd wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been hacking on a set of patches which make open-vm-tools build > > against the GTK+ libraries shipped in OpenSolaris. The patches aren't > > too invasive, but I do need to clean them up a bit. I also haven't > > tried installing them into a boot environment so they may explode > > rather badly... > > When I wrote GTK+ I meant GTKMM instead, ie the C++ libraries for GTK. > Sorry for the confusion. > > Well the bits I installed into a new boot environment didn't explode > at all, but it isn't clear if things are working properly. > > VMware Fusion 3 thinks that the tools aren't installed. > > I ran 'pfexec vmtoolsd' in the background, and then vmware-user once > I'd logged into GNOME. They seemed happy to run and stay running. > > I copied some text from the OpenSolaris guest and pasted it into the > Mac host. That certainly didn't work before!
Yes, you need vmware_user running to be able to do copy/paste and DnD. > I couldn't get copy/paste > working in the other direction, but X11 has a pretty weird concept of > copy/paste so that could be down to user error. It works on Linux so (barring the bugs in the code) it should work on Solaris as well. > > vmware-checkvm outputs "VMware software version 6 (good)". > > Is there any interest in my patches? > Yes, we are certainly interested. However for us to be able to integrate your patches directly into our tree we need you to sign a contribution agreement (see http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php). Thanks! -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
