On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:01:55PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Are you saying that in the last _five years_ no one's successfully > > built any version of open-vm-rools for RHEL5? > > who knows and who cares since VMware Inc. ships binaries > within ESXi and in public repos?
The backstory is that we sell a network appliance based on CentOS. More specifically, we provide to the customer an executable that produces an ISO image that can be used to install the appliance's software in a VMware virtual machine. (Yes, that's very convoluted, but this is to address legal issues about software redistribution.) I hoped to include the commercial VMware tools in that ISO image. VMware legal has stated that this is not an approved method of redistribution, and as such, we cannot provide these tools. I turned to the open-source version of VMware tools, and have run into the issues cited in this thread. -- Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> BSD admin/developer at large ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
