Hi, On Tuesday 14 April 2009 14:24:21 William Cattey wrote: > I have joined the open-vm-tools-devel list in the hopes of providing > some improvements to the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. > > I am using open-vm-tools under Ubuntu 8.10. There were some problems > but most were corrected with the fixes rolled out as per Ubuntu LP > 302226: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302226 > > There remains one problem: Now that vmware-user is properly > starting, drag and drop does not work. This is because vmblock is > not being properly started. > > I apologize in advance for being a first-time poster but disagreeing > with an answer given previously on the list. I think Dmitry Torokhov > may have given an incorrect answer to Dominique Leuenberger on > 2/11/2009. I am looking at the open-vm-tools-2009.03.18-15458 > download and it appears that the code in vmware-user-suid-wrapper to > load/unload the vmblock kernel module is missing. > > I proposed a patch to the Ubuntu community on 2/25/2009 in LP 332323 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332323 > but I think I was approaching the wrong folks. > > Attached is my patch which: > > adds to wrapper-linux.c: > > UnmountVMBlock to call unmount(mountPoint) > UnloadModule to call modprobe -r > LoadVMBlock to call modprobe > MountVMBlock to call mount (mountPoint) > > modifies wrapper.h to add linux to the list of platforms that define > TOGGLE_VMBLOCK > > modifies the platform independent code in main.c to add a platform > specific > "if !defined(linux)" around the code that creates the vmblock > directory in /proc/fs. (Under Linux, that mkdir is unnecessary > because the creation of the directory is done by the vmblock kernel > module itself.) > > I'll note in passing that Ubuntu installs the script in the wrong > place without the setuid bit set, but that is not your problem. > > Could someone look at this patch and tell me how I might refine it so > that vmblock load-in could actually become a part of the vmware-user- > suid-wrapper as its man page says it should be. >
We expect startup scripts to take care of loading and unloading vmblock instead of having application do that for us. -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
