Am 07.03.2013 21:07, schrieb Brian Reichert: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> for RHEL you find binary RPMS and even yum-repos fro the VMware-Tools >> >> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/index.html >> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0u2/rhel6/x86_64/index.html >> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.0u2/rhel5/x86_64/index.html > > These are not open source, and there is no corresponding source > code available for them
so what - your host-OS is also not opensource if you are riding on the "all has to be open source" you must use KVM or such solutions at all - the open-vm tools are mostly for guest systems which are providing recent kernels which does not need most of the kernel-modules and in a short also have vmci/vsock in the upstream kernel saying that: look in the changelog, in a short you can expect that there is no way to install open-vm-tools on kernels of LTS guest systems becuse you will lack many things which are never in RHEL5/6
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