Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

[Ravindra Kumar]

Collin,

Like Peter mentioned, open-vm-tools are not limited to desktop operations. In fact, we have split the package into two: open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop.

open-vm-tools is the non-desktop piece. The main service it contains vmtoolsd exits immediately if not running on VMware platform.

I need to explore the privileged container approach, but I would also like to learn about the technical downsides of including the package in the image itself.

Thanks,
Ravindra

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From: cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:cloud-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Colin Walters
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 8:46 AM
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Subject: Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic



On Mon, Nov 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:

> It needs some fairly low level "HW" access, not sure how that would 
> work containerised.

If you "docker run --privileged", the container has total access to the host, it's no different from any other process running as root.  Try it:

# docker run -ti --privileged -v /:/sysroot centos ls /dev _______________________________________________
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