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[JIRA] Commented: (ATN-42) vmware tools is variously broken under
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder (JIRA))
Fri Apr 10 23:37:06 2009
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Evan Broder commented on ATN-42:
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The only issue I see in the preparation of the patch itself is that you based it off of a package in Anders' PPA (2008.08.08-109361-1ubuntu2.2*~andersk6*). You should instead base your patches off of whatever package is currently in the development release (right now, that's 2008.11.18-130226-1lenny1).
But I think a bigger issue is that this is just a very substantial patch to be incorporating into Ubuntu without any involvement from the upstream maintainers. You should see if this is still an issue in the current upstream code (http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/) and file a bug there if it is. If it isn't, figure out how they fixed it and try to incorporate their patch as a new Ubuntu revision.
> vmware tools is variously broken under Ubuntu
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ATN-42
> URL: https://jira.mit.edu/jira/browse/ATN-42
> Project: Athena 10
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: Early Cluster, Cluster with Quickstation, Production
> Environment: Any use of Ubuntu as a vmware guest.
> Reporter: Bill Cattey
> Assignee: Bill Cattey
> Original Estimate: 1 week
> Remaining Estimate: 1 week
>
> VMware tools provides useful and important performance and functionality enhancement when installed and running inside a vmware guest: Dynamic resizing of the guest display, mouse focus management, text cut and paste outside the guest, drag and drop outside the guest, a sharable filesystem, and higher performance network driver.
> Unfortunately VMware tools is variously broken under ubuntu.
> Under Ubuntu 8.04 the breakage is merely inconvenient: The kernel modules are rebuilt even when vmware-config-tools.pl is run to resize the default display. Smarter module rebuild would be nice.
> Under Ubuntu 8.10 there are extreme forms of breakage that render the system nigh unusable.
> 0. VMware tools from VMware, normally available with the "Install VMware Tools" host command
> will not build. Instead, users who dig into the VMware forums will find they need open-vm-tools.
> Ubuntu 8.10 offers vmware-tools, vmware-toolbox, and (utilized with debian module assistant) the open-vm
> module package as part of the "Universe" repository.
> 1. When a user installs vmware-tools, networking goes off line, and rebooting does not help.
> 2. After you get vmware-tools to install and to use vmxnet, the vmware guestd program will not run because the port to Ubuntu contained a raft of errors. The vmware guestd program is a prerequisite for other useful functionality.
> 3. After the errors are corrected in vmware guestd, the vmware-user program will not auto-start because of a missing line in the gdm configuration file that is supposed to make it run. Correcting that fault will enable screen resizing and text cut/paste outside the guest.
> 4. After the vmware-user program is running, drag and drop does not work, because the vmware-user-suid-wrapper fails to execute part of its stated mission: To load the required vmblock kernel module.
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