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: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1591 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20080101/b41a78d3/attachment-0001.sig>