Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools for latest CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 kernel-vms

2008-01-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I would like to point out that VMware is working very hard to get these > tools incorporated into Linux distros right now. Whether or not we > should do this or promote Xen instead is a different argument for a > different time. > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools for latest CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 kernel-vms

2008-01-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 1, 2008 7:53 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > Couple questions regarding these kernels... should they be run on the > > host or on the guest? And I see they are in -testing right now, and > > also in "tru's" home directory. Where is the authoritativ

Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools for latest CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 kernel-vms

2008-01-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ray Van Dolson wrote: >>> 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 clie

Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools for latest CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 kernel-vms

2008-01-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> > 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. This is in

Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools for latest CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 kernel-vms

2008-01-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
John Thomas wrote: > Johnny Hughes said the following on 12/31/2007 11:37 AM: > >> 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