Adding open-vm-tools to core group

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 11:59 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Ravindra Kumar (ravindrakumar at vmware.com) said:
> >> (Batching a bunch of replies)
> >>
> >> > Install and uninstall looks a bit weird to me; what could be
> >> > done is to make the package conditionally whether it's running
> >> > in a VMware VM or not, much like it happens now for the EFI
> >> > packages (only installed on an EFI system) or the spice agent
> >> > (IIRC) if it's installed in libvirt/kvm or RHEV/ovirt.
> >>
> >> Thanks Simone. I will look into this.
> >>
> >> > Wouldn't the opposite make more sense?
> >>
> >> Yes, that is more logical. But, I have considered how Anaconda
> >> installs packages from CD and yum etc. Conditionally excluding
> >> it during different types of installation methods will probably
> >> require lots of changes in different pieces of install framework.
> >> E.g. including/excluding a package from CD, including/excluding
> >> a package from yum etc.
> >
> > But adding it if a condition is met seems much simpler. Consider
> > how it adds FS tools or RAID tools depending on the type of install.
> >
> > Or if this was done via a yum plugin, it's possible it could be
> > done automatically at that level.
> 
> I don't see why we would add this by default, the VM will function
> without is (unlike storage) and we don't add ovirt-guest-agent and
> other virt vendor's agents by default.

We do, in fact, include the SPICE agent stuff by default now. (Which I
like because it means copy/paste out of Fedora KVMs always works, but I
never claimed not to be a hypocrite :>)
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