RE: open-vm-tools: still alive? Build against kernel 3.19.0

[Ravindra K. <rav...@vm...>]

Including Dominique as he is not a member of the list.

Dominique, could you please subscribe to the mailing list to avoid missing on responses to your emails?

Thanks,
Ravindra

-----Original Message-----
From: Reindl Harald [mailto:h.r...@th...] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:04 PM
To: ope...@li...
Subject: Re: open-vm-tools: still alive? Build against kernel 3.19.0



Am 20.02.2015 um 00:01 schrieb Dyno Hongjun Fu:
> vmhgfs is the only kernel module that is not yet gone upstream. i 
> think VMware has tried push it upstream but kernel did not want 
> another file system. and the direction is to move it to userworld and 
> use libfuse. it's working internally and should be released later. and 
> hopefully we will get some relief from chasing the constant changing 
> kernel. thanks.

agreed, never saw a usecase for that
smb on the host works just fine and fast

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Reindl Harald <h.r...@th...> wrote:
>> where do you need open-vm-tools to build against a recent kernel?
>>
>> any kernel modules are gone upstream long ago hence 
>> --without-kernel-modules on a recent kernel
>>
>> Am 19.02.2015 um 14:41 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar:
>>
>>> It has been a very long time since open-vm-tools has seen an 
>>> official update and it seems distributions are just all trying to 
>>> 'keep it floating', mainly with every kernel update there is 
>>> something differently breaking.
>>>
>>> Of course it got much better already, as most kernel modules are 
>>> merged inline, and the tools are merely just 'tools', but to my 
>>> records there is still need for the  vmhgfs kernel modules (for 
>>> proper sharing between host/guest)
>>>
>>> The last release of open-vm-tools was 9.4.6 (Jul 2014); and the 
>>> number of patches to carry does not give a great feeling (openSUSE's 
>>> package can ge found at 
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/open-vm-tools-KMP
>>>    )
>>>
>>> I'd be looking forward to a release once in a while, that is keeping 
>>> up with the kernel as needed