open-vm-tools for Fedora

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Dario Lesca wrote:
>>
>> Why Fedora not have in our standard repo the open-vm-tools package?
>>
>> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>> 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?
>
> Neither, it's that out-of-tree kernel modules aren't allowed in Fedora.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341

Looks like a perfect candidate for rpmfusion.org

Peter