[Bug 294341] Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools

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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


denis at poolshark.org changed:

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------- Additional Comments From denis at 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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