All of the critical accelerated drivers for Linux guests hosted by newer versions of VMware are in the main Linux and X.org distributions. The past few Fedora releases have included them.
While Fedora may not officially support it, I have every Fedora version back to 14 on my VMware server. My Fedora 18 VM is using VMXNET3, Paravirtualized SCSI, VMware graphics/mouse support, etc. with nothing custom installed.
For those who want full integration, it should be possible to build open-vm-tools without modules and in a manner which does not recompile things already in Fedora. But if such a trimmed version would be accepted is a discussion for another mailing list.
In terms of criteria, it's a question of how important we consider the VMware components; one could argue that Fedora is always dependent on the host UEFI system or BIOS.
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SJG
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/10/2012 12:39 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:I was refereeing to Fedora as an guest in vmware,vbox,hyperv not as an host which is in context with the criteria discussion about Fedora being installed along with other OS.
I think there's still some host/guest confusion going on, possibly.
I considered it important that Fedora works out of the box when deployed as an guest in available virtual solutions but other people seem to praise stallman and what not fixating on open being the only way and failing to understand that people will use what works for *them* and accept other alternatives...
It's kinda obvious that we cover our ground to the best of our ability with Fedora as an host where applicable ( kvm/xen )
JBG
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