Re: open-vm-tools commitment by VMware

2010-05-10 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 5/10/2010 at 15:43, Sean Dilda s...@duke.edu wrote: This is nothing new. From day one open-vm-tools has not been supported by VMware. What this means is that open-vm-tools doesn't go through VMware's normal QA and release cycle, and thus if you call up to VMware support with a

open-vm-tools commitment by VMware

2010-05-07 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi everybody, As this message is in a public tracker I do not see any reason why I should not be allowed to forward this message from vmware directly (original reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591085 ) On 5/6/2010 at 20:34, bugzilla_nore...@novell.com wrote: --- Comment

Re: New kernel / new builderror

2009-05-27 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Dmitry, Marcelo, On 5/26/2009 at 6:53 , Dmitry Torokhov d...@vmware.com wrote: modules/linux/vmblock/linux/control.c-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 24) modules/linux/vmblock/linux/control.c: entry-owner = THIS_MODULE; modules/linux/vmblock/linux/control.c-#endif I just

Re: New kernel / new builderror

2009-05-26 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Marcelo, On 5/26/2009 at 1:09, Marcelo Vanzin mvan...@vmware.com wrote: Just one question: Is there already a patch for the open-vm-tools (2009.05.22) for Kernel 2.6.30 available? Did you try with any other kernel (just to make sure this is really something caused by changes in

Re: New kernel / new builderror

2009-05-26 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 5/26/2009 at 8:56, Dominique Leuenberger Marcelo, I think I posted at least three more lines of errors log, showing the error: /usr/src/packages/BUILD/obj/debug/modules/linux/vmblock/include/vm_basic_typ es.h:145:7: warning: __FreeBSD__ is not defined /usr/src/packages/BUILD/obj/debug

Re: duplicate hgfs.h, block.h,stubs.h includes in archive....

2009-05-25 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Olivier, On 5/25/2009 at 16:03, Olivier LAHAYE olivier.lah...@cea.fr wrote: hen I had to fix lib/wiper/wiperPosix.c to handle fgets return. Had that too (I'm doing openSUSE packges). Sent my patch in also. 3rd I must admit that I'm a little bit lost in finding what files should be

open-vm-tools packaging [Was: Re: duplicate hgfs.h, block.h,stubs.h includes in archive....]

2009-05-25 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Olivier, On 5/25/2009 at 5:24 , Olivier LAHAYE olivier.lah...@cea.fr wrote: http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging Yes, I know this URL, unfortunately, I did not find any usefull tips regarding includes and devel parts. It looks like some .c files are shared between

RE: Untitled-1

2009-05-07 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and over). - Original Message - From: cornel cor...@upload-ro.ro Received: 5/7/09 10:58 PM To: open-vm-tools-devel

Re: suspend / resume scripts

2009-05-06 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 5/5/2009 at 19:41, Marcelo Vanzin mvan...@vmware.com wrote: Hi Dominique, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume). This is all nice and handy, but by default those scripts

suspend / resume scripts

2009-05-05 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
hi, the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume). This is all nice and handy, but by default those scripts are not used, as long as there is no tools.conf existing in /etc/vmware-tools Is this intentional that those scripts

VMWare on 2.6.29 kernel

2009-03-17 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi everybody. Some questions for you: VMware 6.5.1 modules do not compile on kernel 2.6.29 anymore, thus breaking execution of VMware on systems running latest kernels. Is there already an update available (at some place?) The modules to be installed on a guest and host are almost identical.

Re: open-vm-tools 2009.02.18 with kernel 2.6.29rc5

2009-02-23 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 2/20/2009 at 16:25, Dmitry Torokhov d...@vmware.com wrote: Hi Dominique, On Thursday 19 February 2009 01:06:29 Dominique Leuenberger wrote: Hi, Just downloaded the latest tarball and trying to build the new rpms for openSUSE. So far no luck. the vmxnet module seems not to be building

Re: open-vm-tools 2009.02.18 with kernel 2.6.29rc5

2009-02-20 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 2/20/2009 at 17:09, Dmitry Torokhov d...@vmware.com wrote: On Friday 20 February 2009 07:28:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote: How old is old? I think it should compile with most of 2.6 but not 2.4... I have the other part of the patch that has compatibility glue but I didn't think you

Re: vmware-user-suid-wrapper can't access /proc/fs/vmblock/dev

2009-02-12 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 2/11/2009 at 10:22 PM, Dmitry Torokhov d...@vmware.com wrote: Thus having vmware-user-suid-wrapper retry for a few seconds might not be the worst thing to do As said, it only happens in case of automatic login being activated. In other case the time it takes to log in is long enough to

vmware-user-suid-wrapper can't access /proc/fs/vmblock/dev

2009-02-11 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi, (reference to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474076 ) I ran into a small issue with the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. The file is mod 4755, that's fine. I'm testing on openSUSE 11.1. If I configure the system to 'auto login', then we seem to run in a racing condition where vmblock

Re: RFC: Move towards vmblock-fuse

2009-01-21 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi Dmitry On 1/20/2009 at 11:45 PM, Dmitry Torokhov d...@vmware.com wrote: While the guest kernel modules are open-sourced they are still not integrated sad but true ;) with the mainline kernel and thus suffer from rapid kernel API changes that happen in mainline. Although getting some

Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] VMWare Workstatiosn / 2.6.27 kernels

2008-10-22 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:59 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: So a little bit better... just yet: /etc/init.d/vmware start fails on loading all of the modules. It seems not to be happy with this setup yet. Just a follow up on this: I had to modify the script /etc/init.d/vmware; the change