<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2013 19:40, Richard W.M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I'm Ravindra's sponsor.<br>
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Just to clarify a few points:<br>
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- VMware are trying to work better with Fedora, and to help this along<br>
I've been supervising him adding open-vm-tools to Fedora.<br>
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- Because this is just starting out, there are a few mixed messages,<br>
including some advice to remove open-vm-tools (which is now, or soon<br>
will be wrong advice). I hope that Ravindra can work with his<br>
employers to get that advice changed as necessary.<br>
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- As Dan said, the open-vm-tools package only starts the service if<br>
the hypervisor is VMware.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>...and just for the note I'm the reviewer and co-mantainer of it for the RHEL and Fedora <= 18 branches.<br><br>I'm trying to integrate the package properly in Fedora as I'm a consumer of VMware and RHEL/Fedora systems.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950748">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950748</a><br>[2] <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1107">https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1107</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957135">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957135</a><br>[4] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742522">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742522</a><br>
<br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>--Simone<br><br></div></div></div></div>