[Bug 905255] Review Request: open-vm-tools - Open Virtual Machine Tools

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905255

--- Comment #25 from Mohamed El Morabity <pikachu.2014@xxxxxxxxx> ---
> > - Last but not least, open-vm-tools are not usable without specific kernel
> > modules, unless I'm wrong. Since Fedora doesn't allow inclusion of external
> > kernel modules, are they plans from VMware to merge them in the vanilla
> > kernel? Is there a schedule or a kernel version target?
> 
> So far, as far as I know, all the required drivers except for the hgfs
> driver for filesystem mounting are included in RHEL 6.4+ and Fedora 17+. Do
> not know for RHEL 5. Any info on this?
open-vm-tools provides also the following kernel modules:
- vmblock
- vmci
- vmhgfs
- vmsync
- vmxnet
- vsock
Their build is disabled here, for the reasons given above.
Only vsock is already available in vanilla kernel (>2.6.32, so not in RHEL6).
vmxnet is not available, whereas vmxnet3 is in the kernel for a long time.
Those two drivers don't support anyway the same virtual net devices.
vmblock is required to handle drag-and-drop file copy in WorkStation and
Player.
open-vm-tools could integrate "as if" the Fedora repos, but its support would
be very limited.

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