Hi Kenneth,
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:11:39 AM Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
> If you read the link that I have posted, you will find that doing an
> install from the repository doesn't give open-vm-tools that will run in
> vmware when arch has the new 3.2 kernel. The link also talks about how to
> fix the problem. Because I think that you will agree that installers of
> this package should not have to go find this specific thread or know to
> build against their kernel in order to get it to work, I am suggesting that
> it be updated. I would perform the update if I could, but I'm not
> authorized to contribute, and I'm not familiar with the code base. Let me
> know if there's anything I can do to help.
We (open-vm-tools project) do not create packages for specific distributions,
but rather provide only source and expect distribution maintainers to package
it in the way that is most suitable for particular distribution. Since you
seem to be using Arch Linux you need to contact its package maintainer (Sergej
Pupykin) and/or open bugs against this package. See:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/open-vm-tools/
Regarding vmblock: we are deprecating in-kernel vmblock driver in favor of a
FUSE-based solution and recommend distributions also switch to vmblock-fuse.
Vmware Tools shipped with out products use FUSE-based vmblock when running on
kernels 2.6.27 and above.
Thanks,
Dmitry
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