Am 20.02.2015 um 00:01 schrieb Dyno Hongjun Fu:
vmhgfs is the only kernel module that is not yet gone upstream. i think VMware has tried push it upstream but kernel did not want another file system. and the direction is to move it to userworld and use libfuse. it's working internally and should be released later. and hopefully we will get some relief from chasing the constant changing kernel. thanks.
agreed, never saw a usecase for that smb on the host works just fine and fast
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:where do you need open-vm-tools to build against a recent kernel? any kernel modules are gone upstream long ago hence --without-kernel-modules on a recent kernel Am 19.02.2015 um 14:41 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar:It has been a very long time since open-vm-tools has seen an official update and it seems distributions are just all trying to 'keep it floating', mainly with every kernel update there is something differently breaking. Of course it got much better already, as most kernel modules are merged inline, and the tools are merely just 'tools', but to my records there is still need for the vmhgfs kernel modules (for proper sharing between host/guest) The last release of open-vm-tools was 9.4.6 (Jul 2014); and the number of patches to carry does not give a great feeling (openSUSE's package can ge found at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/open-vm-tools-KMP ) I'd be looking forward to a release once in a while, that is keeping up with the kernel as needed
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