This is nothing new. From day one open-vm-tools has not been supported by VMware. What this means is that open-vm-tools doesn't go through VMware's normal QA and release cycle, and thus if you call up to VMware support with a problem with open-vm-tools, they won't help you.
However, VMware is funding the development of open-vm-tools, and taking some (if not all) of the improvements made in open-vm-tools to help improve the official VMware Tools offering. In other words, open-vm-tools is a open source development release, nothing more, nothing less. On 5/7/10 7:27 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
