On 12/19/2010 01:11 PM, Tom Harris wrote: > After getting everything built, I was amazed to see how large open-vm-tools > has grown. When I last built it, in '08, guestd was ~500K. Now, with > all the library dependencies, plug-in modules, and general growth, > open-vm-tools is larger than the combined size of the small Linux OS I was > building it for.
If you're talking about disk size, then counting shared libraries the open-vm-tools size is not exactly fair. I'm pretty sure more applications in your system use glib. In fact, if you account for vmware-user from the '08 tools, the only new dependency is gtkmm (which you don't need if not building dnd or unity). For "--without-x" tools, the only new dependency is glib, which is pretty standard on Linux systems these days. If you strip the resulting binaries (which make install doesn't seem to do by default), vmtoolsd + plugins ends up being much smaller than 500k. libvmtools + libhgfs add up to about 600k combined, and those two are shared between the system and user instances (and so is the vmtoolsd binary). "make install" also seems to copy a bunch of static archives (.a and .la) which aren't actually needed in the final install. And memory overhead, at least for the system service, hasn't really changed from what it used to be. As for your issue with the kernel directories, I suggest you file a bug so it isn't forgotten. We'll get to it when we get some time (which has been pretty short for o-v-t related issues lately). -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
