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Re: duplicate hgfs.h, block.h,stubs.h includes in archive....

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Olivier,

Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> Trying to minimize the number of includes to put in the dkms build tree I'm 
> trying to create, I've found that there are 2 hgfs.h , 2 block.h and 2 stubs.h 
> includes that are identical except for the top comment (tipicaly the license). 
> Is it normal?
> 
> modules/linux/vmhgfs/hgfs.h is GPL v2
> lib/include/hgfs.h is LGPL v2.1
> 
> modules/linux/vmblock/linux/block.h is GPL v2
> vmblock-fuse/block.h is LGPL v2.1
> 
> modules/linux/vmblock/linux/stubs.h is GPL v2
> vmblock-fuse/stubs.h is LGPL v2.1
> 
> Aside that, they are strictly identical...

Yes, the files are identical except for the license. This is one of the things I 
worked on the past couple of months and, in the next code refresh (sometime this 
week) most of these duplications should be gone. (In fact, the only one I see 
now is hgfs.h, which apparently I missed.)

So at least it should be easier to choose which file to package since there 
should be only one from now on. :-) (The files will be licensed under LGPL and, 
where needed, CDDL and / or BSD; I'm assuming that LGPL is fine for use in the 
kernel module code which is licensed under the GPL - all these licenses make my 
head spin sometimes).

About your other question about what files to package, after all this cleanup it 
does become a little bit trickier to package modules for use with dkms; 
basically, what you'll have to do is:

. place all shared headers either on the module's dir directly, or under a 
"shared" directory under the module's source dir
. place all the "autoconf" stuff under "shared/autoconf" under the module's 
source dir
. copy any shared sources to the module's source dir (for example, 
lib/misc/dbllnklst.c which is used by a few modules).

Also, you shouldn't define OVT_SOURCE_DIR when building through dkms (in case 
you're wondering why that's used in modules/Makefile.am). That variable changes 
the behavior of the makefiles to use the shared stuff in the open-vm-tools 
package, which is not what you want for dkms.

We do something similar when we package these modules with the Tools we ship 
with Workstation or other VMware products, so if you want more information about 
what the directory structure for building different modules "stand alone" looks 
like, feel free to ask.

-- 
- Marcelo

duplicate hgfs.h, block.h,stubs.h includes in archive....

[Olivier L. <oli...@ce...>]

Trying to minimize the number of includes to put in the dkms build tree I'm 
trying to create, I've found that there are 2 hgfs.h , 2 block.h and 2 stubs.h 
includes that are identical except for the top comment (tipicaly the license). 
Is it normal?

modules/linux/vmhgfs/hgfs.h is GPL v2
lib/include/hgfs.h is LGPL v2.1

modules/linux/vmblock/linux/block.h is GPL v2
vmblock-fuse/block.h is LGPL v2.1

modules/linux/vmblock/linux/stubs.h is GPL v2
vmblock-fuse/stubs.h is LGPL v2.1

Aside that, they are strictly identical...

-- 
	Olivier LAHAYE
	CEA Saclay
	DRT-LIST-DETECS-SSTM

Re: modules-only HOWTO? (dkms)

[Olivier L. <oli...@ce...>]

Denis,

Thanks a lot for your help.

In fact I already had a look at your fedora rpm and started to work on it. See 
attachment for what I've done so far.
My aim is that the final spec would create the dkms binary package aside normal 
packages. I don't see any reason to have the open-vm-tools source be part of 2 
source-rpm packages (one for the tools one for the modules).

I'm also not keen to have a kmod package until it is maintained by Mandriva 
team and thus updated at the same time the kernel is updated.

So I'd realy like to go forward with the dkms way (until modules are part of 
the kernel or are provided by Mandriva as part of the main distro).

Note that the attached spec  is a work in progress. While it builds correctly 
all the packages, the dkms one is not correct (missing includes in the build 
tree).

I have 2 solutions at that point:

Either include all open-vm-tools in a dkms shared dir (ugly), or look at the 
vmware-only kernel modules tree and copy missing includes (also ugly as there 
are includes duplicated in all modules directories).

I've also a duplicate definition that occures only if I put all missing 
includes in a shared include directory in the dkms tree. If I try to build the 
package from the original source, this duplicate definition does not occure.... 
I think that some king of include has 2 versions... need to look deeper....

I've tested the git repository, but it is fully equal to all releases (I've 
looked at the commits and they match all releases. (IMHO I see no interrest in 
a git that is exactly the same as the releases. Maybe I'm missing something 
here).

Best regards.


Olivier.

Le lundi 18 mai 2009 12:35:18 Denis Leroy, vous avez écrit :
> On 05/18/2009 09:51 AM, Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to install modules as dkms tree in order to avoid recompiling
> > the modules from the full source tree.
> > Is there a clean way to create the<module>-only source-tree from the full
> > sources or should I do it myself by hand (so I can move it to the dkms
> > source dir)?
> > Right now, I've identified modules includes in modules/shared and
> > lib/includes.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> > PS: I'm trying (in fact) to create a source rpm for Mandriva 2009.1 that
> > creates 3 packages from the full open-vm-tools source archive.
> > - open-vm-tools
> > - open-vm-tools-devel
> > - dkms-open-vm-tools
>
> Olivier,
>
> You can use the spec files I maintain for Fedora RPMFusion (kmod-based)
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-v
>m-tools.html
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-v
>m-tools-kmod.html
>
>
> I also wrote some dkms-based RPM, but no longer maintained:
>
> http://www.poolshark.org/dkms-open-vm-tools/
>
> -denis
>
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-- 
	Olivier LAHAYE
	CEA Saclay

Re: modules-only HOWTO? (dkms)

[Denis L. <de...@po...>]

On 05/18/2009 09:51 AM, Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to install modules as dkms tree in order to avoid recompiling the
> modules from the full source tree.
> Is there a clean way to create the<module>-only source-tree from the full
> sources or should I do it myself by hand (so I can move it to the dkms source
> dir)?
> Right now, I've identified modules includes in modules/shared and lib/includes.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> PS: I'm trying (in fact) to create a source rpm for Mandriva 2009.1 that
> creates 3 packages from the full open-vm-tools source archive.
> - open-vm-tools
> - open-vm-tools-devel
> - dkms-open-vm-tools

Olivier,

You can use the spec files I maintain for Fedora RPMFusion (kmod-based)

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-vm-tools.html
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/10/SRPMS/repoview/open-vm-tools-kmod.html


I also wrote some dkms-based RPM, but no longer maintained:

http://www.poolshark.org/dkms-open-vm-tools/

-denis

modules-only HOWTO? (dkms)

[Olivier L. <oli...@ce...>]

Hi,

I'd like to install modules as dkms tree in order to avoid recompiling the 
modules from the full source tree.
Is there a clean way to create the <module>-only source-tree from the full 
sources or should I do it myself by hand (so I can move it to the dkms source 
dir)?
Right now, I've identified modules includes in modules/shared and lib/includes.

Thanks a lot for your help.

PS: I'm trying (in fact) to create a source rpm for Mandriva 2009.1 that 
creates 3 packages from the full open-vm-tools source archive.
- open-vm-tools
- open-vm-tools-devel
- dkms-open-vm-tools

IMHO, creating a kmod-open-vm-tools is not the way to go if not maintained by 
the distro provided as you have to monitor each kernel update and rebuild the 
kmod package eachtime the kernel is updated in the main distro.

Regards,
-- 
	Olivier LAHAYE
	CEA Saclay

[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-2791776 ] bug tracker shouldn't allow anonymous bugs

[SourceForge.net <no...@so...>]

Tracker item #2791776, was opened at 2009-05-14 08:42
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: Yes
Submitted By: homebrew (barry-davis)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: bug tracker shouldn't allow anonymous bugs 

Initial Comment:
The bug tracker allows you to enter an anonymous bug, but then throws it away and says you should have logged in. Brilliant. Now I have to type it again.

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>Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2009-05-14 16:27

Message:
There's no option to disable the tracker altogether if you're not logged
in. This sounds like a sourceforge issue, not an issue specific to this
project.

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[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-2791804 ] open-vm-tools-2009.04.23-162451 fails with gcc 3.4.3

[SourceForge.net <no...@so...>]

Tracker item #2791804, was opened at 2009-05-14 16:16
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by barry-davis
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: homebrew (barry-davis)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: open-vm-tools-2009.04.23-162451 fails with gcc 3.4.3

Initial Comment:
Im using open-vm-tools-2009.04.23-162451 and gcc 3.4.3

Please apply the patches that fix the following bugs:
 2559990 modules/linux/pvscsi does not compile with old GCC
 2539708 /modules/linux/vmxnet3 does not compile

The patch that is attached to bug 2559990 nolonger applies.

I've attached the patch I currently use. Its messy but it works.


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[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-2791776 ] bug tracker shouldn't allow anonymous bugs

[SourceForge.net <no...@so...>]

Tracker item #2791776, was opened at 2009-05-14 15:42
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by barry-davis
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: Yes
Submitted By: homebrew (barry-davis)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: bug tracker shouldn't allow anonymous bugs 

Initial Comment:
The bug tracker allows you to enter an anonymous bug, but then throws it away and says you should have logged in. Brilliant. Now I have to type it again.

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Re: Untitled-1

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:20:32 Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:11:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >> Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I
> >> have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over
> >> and over).
> >
> > The lists are open for posting to everyone, not only subscribers.
> > Unfortunately SF's spam filters are leaving much to be desired.
>
> I added a filter for this particular guy, but the list is still open for
> everyone (interestingly, the -announce list, which is moderated, gets *a
> lot* of spam, but it never makes through).
>
> We could always make the list moderated for non-members if spam becomes
> more annoying on this list.

I always enjoy getting some "enhancement" ads in the mornings ;)

-- 
Dmitry

Re: Untitled-1

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:11:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>> Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I
>> have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and
>> over).
>>
> 
> The lists are open for posting to everyone, not only subscribers. 
> Unfortunately SF's spam filters are leaving much to be desired.

I added a filter for this particular guy, but the list is still open for 
everyone (interestingly, the -announce list, which is moderated, gets *a lot* of 
spam, but it never makes through).

We could always make the list moderated for non-members if spam becomes more 
annoying on this list.

-- 
- Marcelo

Re: Untitled-1

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi Dominique,

On Thursday 07 May 2009 14:11:20 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I
> have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and
> over).
>

The lists are open for posting to everyone, not only subscribers. 
Unfortunately SF's spam filters are leaving much to be desired.

-- 
Dmitry

RE: Untitled-1

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

Can this user please be unsubscribed and banned from the mailinglist? I have never seen him adding any value yet but he keeps on spamming (over and
over).



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Re: suspend / resume scripts

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Dominique,

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Thank you very much. So it must be vmware-toolbox which shows something
> wrong. when first started up, it shows all the scripts as not being used

Yes, that is one of the bugs that were already fixed internally and will be out 
in the next update.

> /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf (which, btw, is missing from the regular make
> install routine. And also on the packagers wiki it is now only mentioned in
> the file layout structure, but no information what should be in is mentioned.
> There used to be disable-tools-version=1 written there, no? Is this obsoleted
> by newer version?)

tools.conf is not necessary; no file, or an empty file, is good enough for Tools 
to work out of the box.

disable-tools-version=1 is not necessary anymore either; I made some changes to 
the code so that the option is "hardcoded" when compiling open-vm-tools, instead 
of relying on a config file to tell the code what to do.

-- 
- Marcelo

Re: suspend / resume scripts

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

>>> On 5/5/2009 at 19:41, Marcelo Vanzin <mv...@vm...> wrote: 
> Hi Dominique,
> 
> Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>> the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools
>> (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume). This is all nice and handy, but by
>> default those scripts are not used, as long as there is no tools.conf
>> existing in /etc/vmware-tools
> 
> The scripts should be used by default, even without a tools.conf; the 
> current 
> version of open-vm-tools may still have a bug that was already fixed 
> internally 
> (not sure, haven't actually checked the code) which caused what you describe 
> above.

Hi Marcelo,

Thank you very much. So it must be vmware-toolbox which shows something wrong. when first started up, it shows all the scripts as not being used,
then you can enable them and it will create / extend a /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf (which, btw, is missing from the regular make install routine. And
also on the packagers wiki it is now only mentioned in the file layout structure, but no information what should be in is mentioned. There used to be
disable-tools-version=1 written there, no? Is this obsoleted by newer version?)

Dominique

Re: suspend / resume scripts

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Dominique,

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools
> (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume). This is all nice and handy, but by
> default those scripts are not used, as long as there is no tools.conf
> existing in /etc/vmware-tools

The scripts should be used by default, even without a tools.conf; the current 
version of open-vm-tools may still have a bug that was already fixed internally 
(not sure, haven't actually checked the code) which caused what you describe above.

But the correct behavior is to use the scripts by default, so they should be 
installed.

-- 
- Marcelo

suspend / resume scripts

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

hi,

the packaging guidelines tells us to put several scripts in /etc/vmware-tools (suspend, poweron, poweroff, resume).
This is all nice and handy, but by default those scripts are not used, as long as there is no tools.conf existing in /etc/vmware-tools

Is this intentional that those scripts are disabled by default (poweron and shutdown are dummy scripts anyhow), or should we also put a tools.conf in
the packages? 

Thanks for clarification,

Dominique

Re: open-vm-tools 2009-04-23 snapshot

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

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Marcelo Vanzin <mv...@vm...> wrote:

>
>> also, in the packaging wiki is vmblock-fuse mentioned short, but I did not
>> find any references to this.
>
> I'll look into adding something about vmblock-fuse into the packaging wiki. The
> short version is that you can (now) choose to install either the vmblock kernel
> module or vmblock-fuse, and vmware-user should be happy with either.

Further to what Marcelo said, I wanted to add that we would really
like to get more eyes on vmblock-fuse. While the kernel module will
stay for backwards compatibility, we want to move towards using
vmblock-fuse more extensively, so any feedback the community can
provide on this would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Ragavan

Re: open-vm-tools 2009-04-23 snapshot

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Dominique,

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> what I tried: starting "vmtoolsd vmusr" seams not to daemonize at all (might
> be intentional... typically it's started from a .desktop file anyhow). I
> think vmtoolsd vmusr is not yet ready, right?

To daemonize vmtoolsd, you need to provide the "--background" (or -b) command 
line option (just like it used to be for vmware-guestd). This applies to any 
named instance of vmtoolsd.

But you're right - "vmtoolsd -n vmusr" is not yet ready to replace vmware-user, 
we still need to port a bunch of features.

> so I went back and tested with vmware-user-suid-wrapper (which was the
> previous running version I used). This stars up, I can see it in ps ax, 
> together with a File Decriptor ID, but even with this running, drag'n'drop is
> not working.

I'm not too sure what's the current state of drag & drop, but if I find some 
time I'll take a look to see what's going on. The new dnd protocol is still 
under development for Linux, so there might be bugs (I think there's an option 
somewhere you can use to force use of the old protocol, but I can't remember it 
from the top of my head).

> also, in the packaging wiki is vmblock-fuse mentioned short, but I did not
> find any references to this.

I'll look into adding something about vmblock-fuse into the packaging wiki. The 
short version is that you can (now) choose to install either the vmblock kernel 
module or vmblock-fuse, and vmware-user should be happy with either.


-- 
- Marcelo

open-vm-tools 2009-04-23 snapshot

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

Hi everybody,

I've been re-packaging the open-vm-tools 2009.04.23 snapshot for openSUSE. A short success / failure story:
- I switched our spec file to use the make install which is now provided (which, in turn, is still written in the README that it does not exist
btw).
  Works pretty well, had only very few issues (mainly to some libtool magic with rpath)

So, in short: I have RPMs that install fine. 

what works for me so far:
- Clipboard sharing
- Screen resizing
- Mouse in/out

What does not work:
- file Drag'n'drop from guest to host
- file Drag'n'Drop from host to guest

what I tried:
starting "vmtoolsd vmusr" seams not to daemonize at all (might be intentional... typically it's started from a .desktop file anyhow).
I think vmtoolsd vmusr is not yet ready, right?

so I went back and tested with vmware-user-suid-wrapper (which was the previous running version I used). This stars up, I can see it in ps ax,
together with a File Decriptor ID, but even with this running, drag'n'drop is not working. 

so could it be that this snapshot does not have a working Drag'n'Drop at all (probably due to the change from vmware-user to vmtoolsd) ?

also, in the packaging wiki is vmblock-fuse mentioned short, but I did not find any references to this.

Thanks for reading all this and maybe you have some hints / pointers or you have seen similiar problems in your snapshots? I'm sure I'm not the only
one packaging this piece up for any distro.

Dominique

Re: vmblock code seems to be missing from vmware-user-suid-wrapper.

[Dominique L. <Dom...@TM...>]

>>> On 4/14/2009 at 11:24 , William Cattey <wd...@MI...> wrote:
> I have joined the open-vm-tools-devel list in the hopes of providing  
> some improvements to the vmware-user-suid-wrapper.
> 
> I am using open-vm-tools under Ubuntu 8.10.  There were some problems  
> but most were corrected with the fixes rolled out as per Ubuntu LP  
> 302226: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302226 
> 
> There remains one problem:  Now that vmware-user is properly  
> starting, drag and drop does not work.  This is because vmblock is  
> not being properly started.
> 
> I apologize in advance for being a first-time poster  but disagreeing  
> with an answer given previously on the list.  I think Dmitry Torokhov  
> may have given an incorrect answer to Dominique Leuenberger on  
> 2/11/2009.  I am looking at the open-vm-tools-2009.03.18-15458  
> download and it appears that the code in vmware-user-suid-wrapper to  
> load/unload the vmblock kernel module is missing.

I ended up then creating a shell script that is lainched instead of the vmware-suid-wrapper.
on openSUSE, we have an rc.d script that takes care of loading the vmblock module, but still ended up in a race condition(gnome starting up faster
than the module initialized).

so the shell script vmware-user-autostart-wrapper looks like
###
#!/bin/sh   
MAX_RETRY=8   
RETRY=0   
SLEEP=1   
  
while [ $RETRY -lt $MAX_RETRY ]; do   
  
if [ -f /proc/fs/vmblock/dev ]; then   
  /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper   
  exit 0   
else   
  logger "Try $RETRY/$MAX_RETRY : /proc/fs/vmblock/dev not available. sleeping for $SLEEP seconds"  
  sleep $SLEEP   
  RETRY=$[ $RETRY + 1 ]   
  SLEEP=$[ $SLEEP * 2 ]   
fi   
done   
###

This helped me get around the issues at hand back then (which was pretty close to what Dmitry suggested).

Dominique

Re: vmblock code seems to be missing from vmware-user-suid-wrapper.

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:24:21 William Cattey wrote:
> I have joined the open-vm-tools-devel list in the hopes of providing
> some improvements to the vmware-user-suid-wrapper.
>
> I am using open-vm-tools under Ubuntu 8.10.  There were some problems
> but most were corrected with the fixes rolled out as per Ubuntu LP
> 302226: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302226
>
> There remains one problem:  Now that vmware-user is properly
> starting, drag and drop does not work.  This is because vmblock is
> not being properly started.
>
> I apologize in advance for being a first-time poster  but disagreeing
> with an answer given previously on the list.  I think Dmitry Torokhov
> may have given an incorrect answer to Dominique Leuenberger on
> 2/11/2009.  I am looking at the open-vm-tools-2009.03.18-15458
> download and it appears that the code in vmware-user-suid-wrapper to
> load/unload the vmblock kernel module is missing.
>
> I proposed a patch to the Ubuntu community on 2/25/2009 in LP 332323
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332323
> but I think I was approaching the wrong folks.
>
> Attached is my patch which:
>
> adds to wrapper-linux.c:
>
>      UnmountVMBlock to call unmount(mountPoint)
>      UnloadModule to call modprobe -r
>      LoadVMBlock to call modprobe
>      MountVMBlock to call mount (mountPoint)
>
> modifies wrapper.h to add linux to the list of platforms that define
> TOGGLE_VMBLOCK
>
> modifies the platform independent code in main.c to add a platform
> specific
> "if !defined(linux)" around the code that creates the vmblock
> directory in /proc/fs. (Under Linux, that mkdir is unnecessary
> because the creation of the directory is done by the vmblock kernel
> module itself.)
>
> I'll note in passing that Ubuntu installs the script in the wrong
> place without the setuid bit set, but that is not your problem.
>
> Could someone look at this patch and tell me how I might refine it so
> that vmblock load-in could actually become a part of the vmware-user-
> suid-wrapper as its man page says it should be.
>

We expect startup scripts to take care of loading and unloading vmblock 
instead of having application do that for us.

-- 
Dmitry

vmblock code seems to be missing from vmware-user-suid-wrapper.

[William C. <wd...@MI...>]

I have joined the open-vm-tools-devel list in the hopes of providing  
some improvements to the vmware-user-suid-wrapper.

I am using open-vm-tools under Ubuntu 8.10.  There were some problems  
but most were corrected with the fixes rolled out as per Ubuntu LP  
302226: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302226

There remains one problem:  Now that vmware-user is properly  
starting, drag and drop does not work.  This is because vmblock is  
not being properly started.

I apologize in advance for being a first-time poster  but disagreeing  
with an answer given previously on the list.  I think Dmitry Torokhov  
may have given an incorrect answer to Dominique Leuenberger on  
2/11/2009.  I am looking at the open-vm-tools-2009.03.18-15458  
download and it appears that the code in vmware-user-suid-wrapper to  
load/unload the vmblock kernel module is missing.

I proposed a patch to the Ubuntu community on 2/25/2009 in LP 332323
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332323
but I think I was approaching the wrong folks.

Attached is my patch which:

adds to wrapper-linux.c:

     UnmountVMBlock to call unmount(mountPoint)
     UnloadModule to call modprobe -r
     LoadVMBlock to call modprobe
     MountVMBlock to call mount (mountPoint)

modifies wrapper.h to add linux to the list of platforms that define  
TOGGLE_VMBLOCK

modifies the platform independent code in main.c to add a platform  
specific
"if !defined(linux)" around the code that creates the vmblock  
directory in /proc/fs. (Under Linux, that mkdir is unnecessary  
because the creation of the directory is done by the vmblock kernel  
module itself.)

I'll note in passing that Ubuntu installs the script in the wrong  
place without the setuid bit set, but that is not your problem.

Could someone look at this patch and tell me how I might refine it so  
that vmblock load-in could actually become a part of the vmware-user- 
suid-wrapper as its man page says it should be.

-Bill Cattey
Linux Platform Coordinator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA

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