Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905255 --- Comment #29 from Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for the review Mohamed, and thanks Simone for testing things and providing patch for Mohamed's comments. > - Last but not least, open-vm-tools are not usable without specific kernel > modules, unless I'm wrong. This is not entirely accurate. open-vm-tools provide lots of administrative and customization capabilities of the VM from the VM management interface. The confusion comes from open-vm-tools code having drivers code as well, but actually most of the drivers are required for specific devices and not for the open-vm-tools operation itself. The open-vm-tools user space components that we are packaging in this bug are dependent on only two drivers vmhgfs and vmblock. vmhgfs is needed for "Shared Folder" functionality in Workstation and vmblock driver is needed for "Drag and Drop" feature. For vmblock driver, the alternative is to use Fuse and that is what we are doing in this package, so we are fine with "Drag and Drop". The only missing piece of the puzzle is vmhgfs driver, which will impact the "Shared Folder" functionality of Workstation. And, with no upstreaming planned for this driver, users will have to either use VMware Tools provided by VMware or build and install this driver from open-vm-tools source code. > 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? Most of the kernel modules except vmhgfs are already part of Linux Kernel 3.6 and even older ones like 2.6.32+. > 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? RHEL 5 uses Linux Kernel 2.6.18 and it is missing most of the drivers. May be all of them. Most of the upstreaming has been done in 2.6.32 and later kernels. > I can test and I'm offering myself as co-mantainer for the package, but I would like to have epel 5 and 6 available. Is that ok for you? I will integrate your changes with a condition that we will be testing and supporting only Fedora 19+ and RHEL 7+. All older releases will have to be tested and verified by you or someone who is going to use the RPM on those distros. > I'm installing it right now the latest spec file on some Fedora guests in our environment, will let you know what can I do with it. If at least it can fill the guest information in the VMware console like ip address, shutdown, etc. I think it's a big win. Both for Fedora and RHEL. > What do you think? That should work normally for most of the administrative operations. I'm integrating your changes and will publish the files soon with my changes. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/token.cgi?t=TNK2ZvNEsf&a=cc_unsubscribe _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review