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Summary: Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341
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------- Additional Comments From denis(a)poolshark.org 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.
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