Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-25 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 11/22/2014 06:20 AM, Haïkel wrote: You may use Fedora Atomic as an alternative to boot2docker, though it won't be as small as boot2docker. I think there's some additional tooling around boot2docker, but I have to admit I haven't used it + don't know enough about it. Maybe something to test

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-25 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I've used Boot2Docker - it's point, click and ship Docker hosting for Windows or MacOS X and it bundles the open-source piece of VirtualBox to get that done. I haven't used it on a Mac but on Windows you download an installer and run it. It installs VirtualBox, Windows MSYS Git and the Boot2Docker

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-24 Thread Colin Walters
Hi Ravindra, At the moment, we do not have a formal process for this. The problem is further compounded by the fact that there is only one tree. Meaning that open-vm-tools would end up even on other deployment targets such as bare metal, AWS/GCE, etc. At a high level, we are trying to coalesce

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-24 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: Hi Ravindra, At the moment, we do not have a formal process for this. The problem is further compounded by the fact that there is only one tree. Meaning that open-vm-tools would end up even on other deployment targets

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: It needs some fairly low level HW access, not sure how that would work containerised. If you docker run --privileged, the container has total access to the host, it's no different from any other process running as root. Try it: #

RE: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-24 Thread Ravindra Kumar
:34 AM To: Fedora Cloud SIG Subject: Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic Great - is there a *technical* (meaning non-policy) reason why Fedora's version of open-vm-tools doesn't support mounting host files in the guest? VMware does such a terrible job at tracking changes in the kernel

RE: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-24 Thread Ravindra Kumar
...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Colin Walters Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 8:46 AM To: cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic On Mon, Nov 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: It needs some fairly low level HW access, not sure how that would

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-22 Thread Haïkel
2014-11-22 1:26 GMT+01:00 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@znmeb.net: You'd need to reformat them to vmdk with 'qemu-img convert' first, I think. I got the Koji image to work on Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V by using 'qemu-img convert' to convert it from qcow2 to vhdx. On a related note, is there a

Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-21 Thread Ravindra Kumar
Hi all, I'm the maintainer for open-vm-tools package in Fedora. For the benefit of Fedora Atomic users on VMware platform, I would like to add open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic. Could somebody please advise/help me with the process involved to get open-vm-tools package in Fedora Atomic?

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Great - is there a *technical* (meaning non-policy) reason why Fedora's version of open-vm-tools doesn't support mounting host files in the guest? VMware does such a terrible job at tracking changes in the kernel source that I've given up on using it. And why is open-vm-tools installed by default

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On 11/21/2014 01:51 PM, Ravindra Kumar wrote: Could somebody please advise/help me with the process involved to get open-vm-tools package in Fedora Atomic? Silly question - do the qcow/etc images we're producing now run on VMware? I haven't tried importing them to anything VMware... Best, jzb

Re: Adding open-vm-tools package to Fedora Atomic

2014-11-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
You'd need to reformat them to vmdk with 'qemu-img convert' first, I think. I got the Koji image to work on Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V by using 'qemu-img convert' to convert it from qcow2 to vhdx. On a related note, is there a plan to build boot2atomic? Like Boot2Docker, only Atomic instead of