Just noticed that the code for most (possibly all?) of the Solaris kernel
modules in VMware Tools is now available, licensed under CDDL. In the past the
user level code was available but not the kernel code. VMware Tools is a
package installed inside the guest OS to make things work better in
Yes, this is the source for the guest OS tools. Note that kernel components
are included for Linux, but not (yet) for Solaris or FreeBSD. The user level
components should work in Solaris. Also most of the user level code is
released under LGPL (with some BSD and MIT/X11), not GPL.
See the
Joerg writes:
Hi Andy, this reads as if there are plans to add
kernel components for Solaris
and FreeBSD allowing to use these OS as Host OS in
future. Id this correct?
I was just talking about the drivers that run in the guest VM when tools
are installed (currently vmxnet, vmmemctl,
a link to it
added to the VMware community page.
Andy Tucker
VMware, Inc.
(speaking only for myself)
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On 3/2/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is also another way to get OpenSolaris to almost everyone's hands
which I have been advocating. That is with VMware (Virtual PC works too,
but not as good). Once people start using
On 12/11/05, Peter Koves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the VM you built have SCSI disk(s)? I had a b27 image with an IDE disk
used for / to contain the OS and 6 SCSI drives used to experiment with ZFS.
After I upgraded the image to b28 it won't boot anymore and in fact it
crashes vmWare 5.5
On 11/15/05, Derek Cicero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenGrok, the open source source browsing tool developed by Chandan B.N
and used on OpenSolaris.org is now available for download.
Very cool - this will be a great way to bridge communities (since it's
useful to all developers, not just those
On 11/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an idea that might help get people started with OpenSolaris. I
would like to create and distribute a VM image of a basic OpenSolaris
system that people can run with the free VMWare player or VM Workstation.
Basically what I would
On 8/29/05, Jake Maciejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much is the code going to help with incompatible licenses?
[...]
CDDL code can't be distributed with the kernel, so everything would have to
be rewritten.
License issues don't seem to have prevented distribution of a Linux
port of
On 8/19/05, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Lick -- 黎建溥 wrote
You are right though that there
hasn't been a comprehensive explanation of how the GPL is incompatible
with the CDDL though.
Since CDDL is based on MPL, some of the incompatibilities are explained in
Larry Rosen's
On 8/4/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun needs to opensource the package system or to rewrite
the zones code. Sun advertizes that OpenSolaris includes
Zones but they rely on the missing package system.
Until the packaging source (or at least redistributable binaries) is
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