Hi everybody, As this message is in a public tracker I do not see any reason why I should not be allowed to forward this message from vmware directly (original reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591085 )
>>> On 5/6/2010 at 20:34, <bugzilla_nore...@novell.com> wrote: > --- Comment #4 from John Savanyo <jsava...@vmware.com> 2010-05-06 18:34:31 > UTC > --- > Actually, VMware does not officially support these open-vm-tools, so we > recommend that you remove them from the distro. VMware distributes tools and > source code for drivers with each VMware product release that are intended > for > use with that particular combination of OS release and hypervisor. > > You should also be aware that we are in the process of upstreaming our > kernel > drivers and expect them to be included in the base kernel. This will > eliminate > the need for users to hassle with building and installing drivers. The > vmxnet3 > virtual NIC was in 2.6.32, the vmw_pvscsi virtual HBA was in 2.6.33 and the > balloon driver (vmmemctl) has been accepted recently into 2.6.34. The > vmxnet3 > and vmw_pvscsi should already be in 11.3 and hopefully vmmemctl will be in > milestone7. I'm sure other distro-packagers are interested in this view of vmware regarding the open-vm-tools as well. It almost sounds like a commitment to let them die, which would be a pity (current ouf-of-box experience in a vmware guest is rather good: it 'just works(tm)' ) I call the discussion open! Are other packers considering to drop the tools? What's there purpose of existence if we're not supposed to ship them to our users? Best regards Dominique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
