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.
> Regardi
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
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 distri
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
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