How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

[Samuel Greenfeld]

This is starting to get off topic but:

All of the critical accelerated drivers for Linux guests hosted by newer
versions of VMware are in the main Linux and X.org distributions.   The
past few Fedora releases have included them.

While Fedora may not officially support it, I have every Fedora version
back to 14 on my VMware server.  My Fedora 18 VM is using VMXNET3,
Paravirtualized SCSI, VMware graphics/mouse support, etc. with nothing
custom installed.

For those who want full integration, it should be possible to build
open-vm-tools without modules and in a manner which does not recompile
things already in Fedora.  But if such a trimmed version would be accepted
is a discussion for another mailing list.

In terms of criteria, it's a question of how important we consider the
VMware components; one could argue that Fedora is always dependent on the
host UEFI system or BIOS.

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SJG


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 11/10/2012 12:39 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> I think there's still some host/guest confusion going on, possibly.
>>
>
> I was refereeing to Fedora as an guest in vmware,vbox,hyperv not as an
> host which is in context with the criteria discussion about Fedora being
> installed along with other OS.
>
> I considered it important that Fedora works out of the box when deployed
> as an guest in available virtual solutions but other people seem to praise
> stallman and what not fixating on open being the only way and failing to
> understand that people will use what works for *them* and accept other
> alternatives...
>
> It's kinda obvious that we cover our ground to the best of our ability
> with Fedora as an host where applicable ( kvm/xen )
>
> JBG
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