On 07/28/2010 02:58 PM, Dyonisius Visser wrote: > It has been working pretty well since the release in April, but I > guess the version in Ubuntu (236320) lacks behind the stuff in the > VMware repository at f.i. > http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/index.html, > which is currently at 257589.
The build numbers can't be compared that way, since by themselves they don't identify branches where the build is from. :-) In this particular case, the code Ubuntu is using is actually a lot newer (as in, it came from a development branch that has a lot of changes not available on the branch where the official Tools you mention come from). > It would be ideal to combine the working and supported tools from > VMware with the dkms system from Ubuntu. The word I got from the team who manages that part of the Tools is that most customers do not want to have kernel headers and compilers installed on their VMs, so this sort of integration wasn't desired. So they didn't do it. There is a "vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-source" package in the repository you linked to above, so you could potentially use that to build the binary package for a new kernel and distribute it to all your VMs. But yeah, that's no an automated step like using dkms. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
