On 2 May 2013 19:40, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > I'm Ravindra's sponsor. > > Just to clarify a few points: > > - VMware are trying to work better with Fedora, and to help this along > I've been supervising him adding open-vm-tools to Fedora. > > - Because this is just starting out, there are a few mixed messages, > including some advice to remove open-vm-tools (which is now, or soon > will be wrong advice). I hope that Ravindra can work with his > employers to get that advice changed as necessary. > > - As Dan said, the open-vm-tools package only starts the service if > the hypervisor is VMware. >
...and just for the note I'm the reviewer and co-mantainer of it for the RHEL and Fedora <= 18 branches. I'm trying to integrate the package properly in Fedora as I'm a consumer of VMware and RHEL/Fedora systems. During the long review; I've filed a bug onto RHEL's procps package [1] that popped out while building on that platform, filed a FESco ticket to see if the service could be enabled on install [2]; and when FESco gave the approval I filed a bug for enabling it in the systemd preset file [3]. The systemd preset request is still unassigned. Making sure open-vm-tools will be conditionally installed if the system is being run virutalized under VMware is another step that would help Fedora being a first class citizen as a VMware guest. I would like to point out that on my physical laptop I have spice-vdagentd installed, probably it was installed from the first DVD install. There was an RFE bug opened regarding conditional installation of the agent on Spice guests [4], but it seems it was simply included by default on all installs. So to keep consistency; open-vm-tools should apply the same logic here. I'm not an Anaconda developer but I guess open-vm-tools and spice agents can follow the same logic that is applied to other packages like the EFI tools; i.e. are installed conditionally. I would prefer not to have them installed on my laptop. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950748 [2] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1107 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957135 [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742522 Regards, --Simone
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