Am 07.05.2013 19:39, schrieb Ravindra Kumar: >> 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 that is all true and nice but no valid reson to include it in CORE the only packages which should allowed to be in CORE are commands and libraries which gives you network access to use yum, nothing else, really *nothing else* with your argumentation i would have drivers and helpers for whatever virtualization technology on my VMware guests NO - that should be up to the admin and nobody else VMware is doing a damn good hob get the guest-drivers in the kernel and i am very happy with this because i am a *heavy* VMware user but as i do not like *any* package on my setups which i do not *really* need i see no reason why a KVM user should have any byte of my optional vmware userspace tools on his setup
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