[sles-beta] SLES11-SP4 beta2 x86_64 - VMware Tools Again ...

[Waite, Dick]

Sounds good Allen. Would be grand if they added a quick test to see who they were possibly working with.

__R

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Subject: Re: [sles-beta] SLES11-SP4 beta2 x86_64 - VMware Tools Again ...

I would assume that SUSE is primarily targeting SLES for use under VMware vSphere, and that the workstation version is not the primary focus.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama









On 3/11/15, 2:22 AM, "Waite, Dick" <Dick.Waite at softwareag.com> wrote:

>Mike the part I don’t see working in this two horse race is:
>
>VWware Workstation bring out a 11.2.0 which has Tools at say 9-9-3-123456. They control both halves of the interface so they can test this works.
>
>I update to 11.2.0 and try and run with "open-vm-tools", now I know SUSE and VMware are good friends but will then let you know in advance whet has changed in their update ?
>
>The other part is, on some systems I run Workstation 10.n for our own reasons, this runs grand with VMware tools built with 10.n but which version of "open-vm-tools" would I use ? or do you hope the latest "open-vm-tools" will fit all the versions of Workstation that VMware support ?
>
>I don’t see with what application you (SUSE) would expect "open-vm-tools" to run with, maybe knowing that would remove some of the Shades of Grey.
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>__R
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