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

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Day Frederic,

Many Thanks for the update as to what is supported on what. Having two slightly different environments, SLES and SLED does give, well does give us more issues than what it's solving? We like to have a SUSE environment on x86_64 that can be either SLES or SLED. Could one have the two SLES iso's and the two SLED iso's enabled? If one could then I think that would be a grand step forward. Not having to check before you use the Linux environment would be very good. I can understand there could be a cost item, as per windows, but if one took cost out can one run with all four iso's enabled?

Just to say another Thank You to John, I now have quite a few VMware machine running SUSE 12-GMC2 and with VMware tools running with all features that we need running well. We will now start testing SAG applications and building with the new environments and looking forward to passing on our findings to SUSE. I will just say to anyone wanting to update SUSE 11-SP3 to SUSE 12-GMC2 one must follow the steps given here and in the release notes.
Uninstall VMware Tools
Run an update, when you at the prompt to add/remove software, ADD open-vm-*, then continue the update. If you don’t do this you can find yourself with SUSE 12 enviroment you no keyboard / mouse
When you have a SUSE 12 GMC2 your happy with. Uninstall open-vm* and then run the VMware install tools to give you back the environment and then run the "vmware-reinstall.pl" which after some prompts will re-build the kit with the new kernel and compilers.
I have done this on a number of SLES 11-SP3, I have done none with SLED, and they are running very well, with shared folders.
__R

-----Original Message-----
From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Frederic Crozat
Sent: Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 10:03
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] [Sleha-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLE 12 is Gold

Le vendredi 17 octobre 2014 à 17:39 +0000, John Savanyo a écrit :
> 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.

Hi John,

I'm just correcting your statement regarding gtk2 and gtk3 support in
SLE12:
- gtk2 is still supported on SLE12. Some important applications like Firefox and Libreoffice have not been ported to GTK3.
- gtkmm2 (C++ binding for gtk2) is indeed no longer supported on SLES12, only on SLED12 and SLE-WE.

--
Frederic Crozat
Project Manager Enterprise Desktop
SUSE

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