Adding open-vm-tools-desktop package to desktop group

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon May 13 18:55:08 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 12:17 -0700, Ravindra Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Currently, I'm maintaining open-vm-tools in Fedora.
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/open-vm-tools
> 
> 
> 
> open-vm-tools provides significant functionality for VM management
> and helps in anything that requires co-ordination with the guest.
> 
> 
> 
> open-vm-tools package provides a sub-package open-vm-tools-desktop.
> open-vm-tools-desktop is a very small package and provides integration
> of VM's desktop UI with host UI or remote client UI. It is essential
> for
> improved user experience of the VM UI, e.g. things like copy/paste,
> proper VM UI screen resolution. This package spawns a process on
> each user login (the process is stopped during logout). The process
> exits
> gracefully if the desktop is not running on a VMware VM.
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to include open-vm-tools-desktop package as part of most
> of the desktop package groups in Fedora by default. Could you please
> 
> help me with the process to make the necessary changes?
> 
> 
> 
> FYI, I'm working with Fedora group to include open-vm-tools as part
> of @standard group.

It might be better to see if it can be added to @base-x , so all the
desktops would inherit it without having to list it specifically?
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Adam Williamson
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