Henry Jensen wrote:
- Debian based distros: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse and xserver-xorg-video-vmware
- Fedora-based distros: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse and xorg-x11-drv-vmware
- Arch based distros: xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouse
I found this packages in Trisquel, BLAG and Parabola GNU/Linux.
I haven't checked other free distros.
I think this drivers are useful only when using a VMware Virtualisation Software
Product. To the best of my knowledge none of those products is free software.
Looks like vmmouse works with other emulation software too [1].
QEMU seems to provide a VMWare virtual video device [2]. AFAIK, all of
QEMU is free software.
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/197337
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU#Shortcomings
