Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

[Ravindra Kumar]

Thanks for the feedback Ed.

Fedora's version does not have vmhgfs driver and therefore it does not work out of box. We are aware of this and hopefully have a solution in future.

Now that Anaconda has platform detection logic, default installation will be fixed soon.

Please send across any more feedback you may have about open-vm-tools on our mailing lists: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/mailman/.

Thanks,
Ravindra

From: cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 11:34 AM
To: Fedora Cloud SIG
Subject: Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

Great - is there a *technical* (meaning non-policy) reason why Fedora's version of open-vm-tools doesn't support mounting host files in the guest? VMware does such a terrible job at tracking changes in the kernel source that I've given up on using it. And why is open-vm-tools installed by default on Fedora Workstation on bare metal or VirtualBox or qemu-kvm guests?
Sorry if I'm "shooting the messenger" here but I've just wasted a couple of days trying to make VMware Workstation work on a Fedora 21 host and Fedora 21 guests work with VMware hosts. There are two open source alternatives, one of which is just a "yum install" away on a Fedora 21 host and which works flawlessly with all modern kernels.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar at vmware.com<mailto:ravindrakumar at vmware.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

I'm the maintainer for open-vm-tools package in Fedora.

For the benefit of Fedora Atomic users on VMware platform, I would like to add open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic.

Could somebody please advise/help me with the process involved to get open-vm-tools package in Fedora Atomic?

Thanks in advance,
Ravindra

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