It is not an absolute requirement but a very important requirement to have some of the important functionality like VM management, guest consistent backups work. It is also required for better user experience of the guest desktop. There is no known reason for not having it in a VMware VM. Hope this helps. Thanks, Ravindra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@xxxxxxxx> To: "Ravindra Kumar" <ravindrakumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Leslie S Satenstein" <lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx>, "Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer" <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:59:29 PM Subject: Re: Help with Anaconda changes On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 20:20:23 -0700, Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Thanks Leslie. I think spins are using CD and I think Anaconda does not need to be modified in that case because it installs everything from CD and CD has only selected packages for the spin. > >I'm thinking of following approach to cover all types of install. > >1. Always install open-vm-tools, basically add it to the core packages. >2. Remove this package after installation if not running inside a VM on VMware. Is this package really a requirement to run on vmware? If it is just a covenience, I think it makes more sense for it to be selected by whoever is doing the install _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
