Hi Chris,
On Friday 30 October 2009 12:37:18 pm Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2009, at 15:26, Chris Ridd wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been hacking on a set of patches which make open-vm-tools build
> > against the GTK+ libraries shipped in OpenSolaris. The patches aren't
> > too invasive, but I do need to clean them up a bit. I also haven't
> > tried installing them into a boot environment so they may explode
> > rather badly...
>
> When I wrote GTK+ I meant GTKMM instead, ie the C++ libraries for GTK.
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Well the bits I installed into a new boot environment didn't explode
> at all, but it isn't clear if things are working properly.
>
> VMware Fusion 3 thinks that the tools aren't installed.
>
> I ran 'pfexec vmtoolsd' in the background, and then vmware-user once
> I'd logged into GNOME. They seemed happy to run and stay running.
>
> I copied some text from the OpenSolaris guest and pasted it into the
> Mac host. That certainly didn't work before!
Yes, you need vmware_user running to be able to do copy/paste and DnD.
> I couldn't get copy/paste
> working in the other direction, but X11 has a pretty weird concept of
> copy/paste so that could be down to user error.
It works on Linux so (barring the bugs in the code) it should work on Solaris
as well.
>
> vmware-checkvm outputs "VMware software version 6 (good)".
>
> Is there any interest in my patches?
>
Yes, we are certainly interested. However for us to be able to integrate your
patches directly into our tree we need you to sign a contribution agreement
(see http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php).
Thanks!
--
Dmitry
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