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 No need to run vmware-config-tools.pl after kernel upgrade Time syncing is somehow better Johnny will personally help you with all your computer problems (just kidding) Costs: None