Borked the CC: I meant to x-post this directly for your input.
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From: Eric Lowe <[email protected]>
To: Bill Rushmore <bill at rushmores.net>
Cc: Michelle.Olson at Sun.COM; content-discuss at opensolaris.org; docs-discuss
at opensolaris.org; xwindow-discuss at opensolaris.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:38:02 PM
Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] [content-discuss] Preliminary Draft for VMware
Article Update
As for the bit with the VMware tools and Xorg:
If you simply install the tools as-is, you won't pick up the Xorg drivers from
the tools package because the Xorg version doesn't match the one the driver was
built for. This is probably just fine, since I am guessing the "vmware" driver
in Nevada is more likely to be up to date than the one shipped in the tools,
but I am asking the experts for their opinion (both in this thread, and I am
consulting with the tools guys inside VMware offline for their opinion also).
As for the question the tools configuration asks about configuring Xorg, if you
say "yes" you are screwed because the tools didn't install the "vmware" driver,
so your X doesn't start when you reboot. Answering "no" causes the X server to
continue to autodetect, and it picks up the Nevada-provided "vmware driver". I
filed a (VMware internal) bug on that... If no Xorg driver is explicitly
installed by the tools, the tools configure script should not attempt to create
a xorg.conf file. :)
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