<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:13 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Why Fedora not have in our standard repo the open-vm-tools package? <A HREF="http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/">http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/</A> > linux-0chi:~ # rpm -qi open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1 > Name : open-vm-tools Relocations: (not relocatable) > Version : 2008.04.14 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany > .... > Group : System/Emulators/PC Source RPM: open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1.src.rpm > Size : 1495998 License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 only; LGPL v2.1 only > .... > Summary : Open Virtual Machine Tools > Description : > Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source > implementation of VMware Tools. It's a License Problem? Or maintainer problem? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Hi There are SRPMS which seem to work well, take a look here for the back story. <A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341</A> <A HREF="http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664">http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664</A> <A HREF="http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665">http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665</A> Thanks Adam </BODY> </HTML>