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

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello Urs, Mike and all,

On 2015-03-10 T 21:39 -0600 Mike Latimer wrote:
 
> The automatic installation of open-vm-tools is due to
> a 'Supplements' statement in the open-vm-tools package
> which matches a VMware pci device ID. I made this
> change for SLES12, and removing it for SLES11SP4
> should "fix" it (if we decide to go that route).
 
we discussed the pros and cons, and I got convinced that
this is the least disruptive approach, as it does not
break existing installations, and the inconvenience of
manually adding the open-vm-tools is acceptable.

Thanks for raising this.

So long -
	MgE

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