> and why? open-vm-tools are required for anything that requires co-ordination with the guest. Here are a few examples, clean shutdown of guest from VM management interface, guest consistent snapshots, collection/display of guest resource usage information in VM management interface, guest automation (running commands inside guest) and other features VDR/HA as you mentioned. > why should anybody need openvm-tools on a non VMware guest? I believe for P2V and V2V use cases. Thanks, Ravindra -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel