Just noticed that the code for most (possibly all?) of the Solaris kernel modules in VMware Tools is now available, licensed under CDDL. In the past the user level code was available but not the kernel code. VMware Tools is a package installed inside the guest OS to make things work better in a VMware environment; if you've ever hit "Install tools" in a VMware GUI this is what you're installing. The latest drop includes the code for vmxnet (paravirtual network driver), vmxnet3 (newer version of same), vmblock (something related to drag-and-drop), vmhgfs (shared host/guest file system), and vmmemctl (memory balloon driver). There's been discussion about this in the past so I figured some people might be interested (particularly anyone building their own OpenSolaris based distro, or trying to run the latest greatest OpenSolaris bits on VMware).
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net Click on "Downloads", grab the latest. There's a git repo too. And an announce mailing list (which is where I heard about the release). Disclaimer (of sorts): I used to work for both Sun and VMware (not at the same time!) but no longer work for either and don't have any inside information about any of this. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
