John Thomas wrote:
Johnny Hughes said the following on 12/31/2007 11:37 AM:
<snip> > The open-vm-tools are available here: > http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/open-vm-tools/ > The purpose of these RPMS (open-vm-tools) is to replace the VMware-Tools > RPMS that come with VMWare. > Please remove VMWare-Tools inside the VM if you are going to install > these open-vm-tools for testing. Thank you for these. May I ask the costs and benefits? Following are my guesses and hopes:
My Guesses: Benefits: Easier to install, just toss into repo and yum install NAME Costs: None
My Hopes: Benefits: Easier to install, will be in CentOS repo with vm kernels
This will be the case, yes. Though that is not the case now.
No need to run vmware-config-tools.pl after kernel upgrade
This is indeed a huge benefit, as it requires one less reboot and does not require you to do anything via your console or to rebuild anything as a user. You also do not need build tools inside your client VM now.
Time syncing is somehow better
It is not really better ... but it is the same. I have found that if your client is running fast, you need to adjust the vmware.conf file like this article says:
And that these tools will keep it from being slow.
Johnny will personally help you with all your computer problems (just kidding)
For the right price :-D
Other added benefits are that the vmhgfs works without recompiling by the user.
Costs: None
I do not see any negative issues.
I do still need to come up with something to copy the xorg.conf file into place while maintaining a backup, and also the same for a gpm config file.
But I think this will be a major improvement for VMWare users as are the kernel-vm kernels.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes