Bug#782287: hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i
Hi again, things have changed - thanks VMware - and I'd be happy to support whatever is needed to make d-i install open-vm-tools when being run in a VMware environment. Regarding the suggested extra binary I'm wondering if dmidecode wouldn't be appropriate to handle the detection of a virtualized environment as dmidecode is shipping an udeb anyway. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
Bug#782287: hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i
Control: retitle 782287 hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i hi, with my open-vm-tools maintainer head on, I can NOT recommend to add a hard dependency on the open-vm-tools package to the installer - although I'd be very happy to have this functionality in d-i as having a running vmtoolsd is important for installations within a vmware environment. Unfortunately the upstream development of open-vm-tools is hidden, patches are floating around on github to make it work with recent kernels at all and debugging issues for me is hard to impossible without having proper ways to debug things within ESX. The only thing I can suggest is to check in d-i if the package is available and if so, install it. I would hate to loose the ability to get open-vm-tools removed from the distribution in case there is some major problem arising or it is just not in a releasable state. thanks, bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55870915.9010...@bzed.de
Bug#782287: hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i
open-vm-tools is mainly about user space tools. Kernel drivers have been either obsoleted, or are part of the current Linux kernel. The only kernel module still needed from open-vm-tools is vmhgfs, which we plan to obsolete in the future when we migrate to using FUSE. But vmhgfs could be distributed as a separate package from open-vm-tools, and made optional. I think the patch can be modified such that open-vm-tools will only be installed if it is available. About the non-transparent development process, please let me know what exactly the concerns are. We do not use github as our primary repository for tools, therefore each release it published in one huge commit. But I am sure the process can be improved, if we know the concerns.
Bug#782287: hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:29:33 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hi again, > > things have changed - thanks VMware - and I'd be happy to support > whatever is needed to make d-i install open-vm-tools when being run in a > VMware environment. I'd think so as well, things got better since then. > Regarding the suggested extra binary I'm wondering if dmidecode wouldn't > be appropriate to handle the detection of a virtualized environment as > dmidecode is shipping an udeb anyway. I opened PR [1] for your consideration which would be a rewrite with the suggested changes. Looking much simpler now, but I can't test that so I'd ask people with VMWare to give that a sanity check. @Oliver Kurth maybe you can give that a shot if it would suit your needs? [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/merge_requests/2
