[open-vm-tools-devel] Windows drivers (Was Re: VMTools for other OSes)

[Ragavan S <rag...@gm...>]

Hi Anthony,

I wanted to get some clarification from you about something. In a previous
message you said:

" What would be ideal is if VMware could provide a VM-Tools ISO for
Windows that contained the various PV drivers with a non-restrictive
EULA. Namely, that it could be redistributed by anyone and could be
used for anything. Providing source code for Windows drivers is not
easy as far as I've been told so I think it's understandable if it was
binary-only."

What are the potential usage scenarios you are trying to address here? Are
you looking to bundle these Windows binaries as is so that once you port the
linux/unix drivers over to your platform, you can then bundle them all
together and provide virtual machine tools for linux, unix AND windows
guests for your platform? Are you planning on writing some wrappers around
these binaries? Or do you have some other use cases in mind?

The more detail you can provide the better. It will be useful to our legal
person as well(especially if the EULA needs to be modified).

Thanks,
Ragavan