[oi-dev] Fwd: open-vm-tools works great!

[Gordon Ross]

[ Oh, this was meant to go to OI developers... ]

Thanks again for the help with building and packaging the desktop
parts of the open-vm-tools.
I recently had reason to setup an OI VM under vmware fusion (on the
Mac) and once I loaded that package, resize works, copy/paste works
between the guest and the host. (I love it when stuff "just works"!
:)

BTW, vmware fusion on this mac was about 5 times faster than virtualbox.
Yeah, not free, but definitely worth the $80 in my case.
(Oh, and a little "pro tip": one can edit the VM *.vmx file and change
ethernet0.virtualDev from e1000 to vmxnet3 for better network performance.)

Oh yeah, a question: Should that package have installed automatically
when I installed the VM? Or maybe when I updated? I had to run "pkg
install ..." to get it.

Thanks,
Gordon

[Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:24 AM Gordon Ross <***@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks again for the help with building and packaging the desktop
> parts of the open-vm-tools.
> I recently had reason to setup an OI VM under vmware fusion (on the
> Mac) and once I loaded that package, resize works, copy/paste works
> between the guest and the host. (I love it when stuff "just works"!
> :)
>
> BTW, vmware fusion on this mac was about 5 times faster than virtualbox.
> Yeah, not free, but definitely worth the $80 in my case.
> (Oh, and a little "pro tip": one can edit the VM *.vmx file and change
> ethernet0.virtualDev from e1000 to vmxnet3 for better network performance.)
>
> Oh yeah, a question: Should that package have installed automatically
> when I installed the VM? Or maybe when I updated? I had to run "pkg
> install ..." to get it.

Hi.
I'm not sure, if it should come with server image, but it likely should be present with Mate image.

If we consider that it's not needed on server, we have to add it to https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/blob/oi/hipster/components/meta-packages/install-types/includes/desktop_common
else it should go to
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/blob/oi/hipster/components/meta-packages/install-types/includes/server_desktop
I'm sure it shouldn't be present in "minimal" or "core".

С уважением,
Александр Пыхалов,
программист отдела телекоммуникационной инфраструктуры
управления информационно-коммуникационной инфраструктуры ЮФУ