[sles-beta] [Sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 is Gold

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Sunny Saturday,

Many Thanks for the very good words John. When one can understand why something was done then one can do something about it.

Following your thoughts I took a snapshot of a working SLES12-GMC2 running in a VMware Workstation 10.0.3 enviroment and then asked yast to uninstall open-vm-tools and the libvm. I had saved VMware Tools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz in /tmp/Tools sometime back and the vmware-tools-distrib.  Moved to that folder and gave "vmware-reinstall.pl" a run and that went very well indeed, used the new sles12 to build and create the new environment. It looked good to shutdown and enable the "shared folders" options. I gave it one read-only and one to write to.
Run a re-ipl and up it came, running VMware Tools and shared folders in SLE12-GMC2, working as well as with SLE11.

A very happy chappy... I'll convert a few more VMware Workstation machines but have to say, Many Thanks indeed John, it's looking good.

__R  
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From: John Savanyo [jsavanyo at vmware.com]
Sent: 17 October 2014 19:39
To: Waite, Dick; 'Stefan Behlert'; sleha-beta at lists.suse.com
Cc: sles-beta at lists.suse.com; sled-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] [Sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 is Gold

The biggest issue with open-vm-tools is that SLES/SLED 12 dropped support
for GTK2 and only supports GTK3. Whereas open-vm-tools only supports GTK2
at the present time. So to include open-vm-tools in SLES/SLED, SUSE needed
to disable the desktop integration features, which will mostly be of
interest to users of VMware Fusion and Workstation products. Work around
for this is to uninstall open-vm-tools and install the VMware Tools that
are bundled with VMware Fusion and Workstation products using the perl
script installer. My understanding is that SLES/SLED 12 is targeted for
testing and support by Fusion 7.x/Workstation 11.x or later releases. But
this testing is not complete yet.

For vSphere ESXi users, we're recommending using open-vm-tools that are
distributed by SUSE. For server workloads, the desktop integration
features are generally not required or desired.

Best,
John

On 10/17/14 7:02 AM, "Waite, Dick" <Dick.Waite at softwareag.com> wrote:

>Grand Wet Afternoon Stefan,
>
>Do you have a feeling in your water on when VMware will start their test
>of SLE12. From GMC2 (Monday 16th) or will they wait until GMC3 on Monday
>October 27th? Without their "tools" running it is a real pain trying to
>do work. Your open-vm stuff is missing quite a lot of bits and bobs.
>Mapping to host directories is missing and that feature is very well used.
>
>__R
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com
>[mailto:sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Behlert
>Sent: Freitag, 17. Oktober 2014 15:33
>To: sleha-beta at lists.suse.com
>Cc: sles-beta at lists.suse.com; sled-beta at lists.suse.com
>Subject: Re: [Sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 is Gold
>
>Hi all,
>
>On Oct 17, 14 08:21:51 -0500, Scott Taylor wrote:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> This announcement states that there are new GMC3-named images that are
>> the actual Goldmaster.
>>
>> However, there are no such images available for download.   Only the
>>GMC2
>> ISO images are available.
>
>Correct. That's why we mentioned how to get to GM state, see below.
>
>> When or where are these GMC3/GM images available?
>
>Currently the next planned release is the official one on Oct 27th on the
>official download pages.
>
>As mentioned, you don't need them, you can simply use the GMC2 images and
>in the package manager update to all new versions (once you have
>registered).
>Sorry if this was not clear from the statement in the original mail.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>        Stefan
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> -scott
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 02:36:53PM +0200, Stefan Behlert wrote:
>> >
>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> > !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL  !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL  !!  SUSE CONFIDENTIAL
>>!!
>> >
>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >
>> >
>> > Dear Beta Participants,
>> >
>> > We are happy to announce that after the final validation and
>> > acceptance phase we have a Goldmaster for
>> >
>> >         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
>> >         SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
>> >     SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12
>> >     SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
>> >     SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12
>> >
>> >
>> > Please note the GM is not identical with GMC2, due to fixes for the
>> > know issues mentioned in GMC2 release notes. We are sorry for this
>> > inconvenience.  If you have registered GMC2, you can get to the
>> > final state by doing an update in the package manager.
>> >
>> > The correct images are the one with "GMC3" in the name. The
>> > Goldmaster will only differentiate in the name of the images
>> > (replace GMC3 with GM), the MD5SUM of the images will stay the same.
>> >
>> > Thank you for the contributions in terms of code, testing, enhancement
>> > requests and bug reports that you have provided to make this a great
>> > release!
>> >
>> >         Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
>> >
>> > --
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>> > Project Manager Enterprise Server
>> >
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