Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341 denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |davej@xxxxxxxxxx ------- Additional Comments From denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2007-09-21 10:34 EST ------- Here's what Philip Langdale (from VMWare) has to say (he also happens to be the author of galeon, btw): > There is a basic acceptance of the principle that we should push them > upstream but we also know that some of the drivers will require a lot > of changes or a complete rewrite to get accepted (and vmblock probably > wouldn't get accepted at all and we'd need to rewrite it using fuse). > So, given how busy people are, we're being unavoidably vague about > when this is going to happen. > > If you're trying to make an argument for maintaining the modules externally > for the time being - the big win is having the distro fully functional out > of the box when installed in a VM - that's what the ubuntu guys are shooting > for, and I would hope the Fedora guys would want the same thing. How can we make this work into Fedora ? There are a lot of vmware users out there, and I think not having open-vm-tools packaged hurts Fedora more that it helps it. Certainly having it for F-8 would be huge. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review