Re: Fedora 11 on VMWare Workstation 6.5 hosted on Windows XP, vmblock problrm

2009-06-12 Thread Denis Leroy
On 06/12/2009 05:23 PM, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > I was able to compile and install the complete set of tool on Fedora 11. > There is 1 problem remaining. > According to the docs a vmblock should be installed as a kernel module > and it should be visible in /proc/fs/vmblock containing 2 nodes dev and

Re: modules-only HOWTO? (dkms)

2009-05-18 Thread Denis Leroy
On 05/18/2009 09:51 AM, Olivier LAHAYE wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install modules as dkms tree in order to avoid recompiling the > modules from the full source tree. > Is there a clean way to create the-only source-tree from the full > sources or should I do it myself by hand (so I can move it to

Compile failure on 2.6.28 rc8

2008-12-18 Thread Denis Leroy
Hi, i'm seeing a vmhgfs compile failure on 2.6.28 rc8 : mhgfs/page.c:88: error: unknown field 'prepare_write' specified in initializer vmhgfs/page.c:89: error: unknown field 'commit_write' specified in initializer Does anyone already have a patch for this ? Also, what is the current way to

[open-vm-tools-devel] Toolbox documentation ?

2008-10-31 Thread Denis Leroy
We noticed that clicking on the Help button of the vmware toolbox generates an error message. Looking at the code, it expects documentation to live in /usr/lib/vmawre-tools/hlp, but the tarball doesn't seem to include any... --

Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] Tools license ?

2008-10-31 Thread Denis Leroy
Marcelo Vanzin wrote: > So it seems to imply that what controls the license version and that other > versions are allowed is the copyright header in each source file; I checked > and > all sources seem to say "no later version", so unless I'm misinterpreting the > LGPL text, I don't think there

[open-vm-tools-devel] Tools license ?

2008-10-26 Thread Denis Leroy
What license are the tools (not the kernel modules) written with ? There are a number of copies of COPYING containing the LGPLv2+ (i.e. "or any later version"), while the source code mentions LGPLv2 (i.e. "no later version")... -denis ---

Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] VMWare Workstatiosn / 2.6.27 kernels

2008-10-21 Thread Denis Leroy
Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is not the right list, but the problem might come up later > in the open-vm-tools as well. > > I'm trying to make a VMware Workstation 6.5 start on a 2.6.27 kernel. For the record, I have no problem here with Workstation 6.5 (build 118166) on F