Include new Open Virtual Machine Tools

Forum thread started by kwurzel on Wed, 2007-09-12 14:49

VMware just released their VMware-Tools as open source. They are available under the BSD, GPL and LGPL license and are called "Open Virtual Machine Tools", see http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/.

I think it would be a good idea to include them in Haiku, especially in the current state of development (mainly virtual images). Is this possible?

Sincerely, kwurzel

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Re: Include new Open Virtual Machine Tools

by umccullough - 2007-09-12 16:42

It was mentioned on the mailing list as well. There are some questions about the portability to gcc2 at this point.

The question I pose is: What benefit will they provide that is so extremely important to Haiku at this point?

The only feature I saw that seemed useful immediately was the host<->guest file transfer mechanism.

Perhaps someone can get the authors interested in porting them to Haiku - since they actually suggested that in their news bit.

Re: Include new Open Virtual Machine Tools

by humdinger - 2007-09-12 17:30

Maybe including the already available VMW Tools (BeBits: http://www.bebits.com/app/4296 ) is possible right now. At least the vmw_server to share clipboards with the host OS is very handy.