<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 4:37 AM, Gordon Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordon.w.ross@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordon.w.ross@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for the info. FYI, copy/paste and resize have usually worked<br>
for me, but broke with the most recent updates.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes we should investigate the possibility to ship a more comprehensive package.<br></div><div>Unfortunately I have no access to any VMware solution but I'll be happy to assist with the component and publish testing packages to xorg-testing if there is any interest.<br></div><div>The input handling seems to have been reworked in Xorg 1.19. I am not sure how it can affect though.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Michael Kruger <<a href="mailto:makruger2000@gmail.com">makruger2000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 11/27/2017 10:54 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I tried after another update yesterday. Same problem.<br>
>><br>
>> After a little more experimenting, and I noticed that copy/paste<br>
>> between the Windows host and the guest no longer work either.<br>
>> As I understand it, both copy/paste and resize involve an interaction<br>
>> between the hypervisor and the guest, and the vmware tools ("guest<br>
>> additions") are a key part of the "plumbing" for those interactions.<br>
>> Given that discovery, I suspect this is likely to be a compatibility<br>
>> problem between the vmware Xorg driver and the vmware tools (provided<br>
>> by vmware).<br>
>> I wonder if it would be worth trying to build one of the "open vmware<br>
>> tools" open-source packages.<br>
>> Anyone have suggestions which to try?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Hi Gordon,<br>
><br>
> I personally have not had the best of luck when installing vmware tools on<br>
> OpenIndiana. Regardless of whether it was ESXi or the workstation player,<br>
> the screen never auto-resized for me, and the mouse, once captured, would<br>
> not escape the VM without doing a CRTL + ALT. No matter what I tried, Xorg<br>
> just wouldn't load the virtual mouse driver.<br>
><br>
> I also noticed the mouse does not work at all when using the new<br>
> ESXI/VSphere web client. This came up in discussion last year.<br>
><br>
> This is actually pretty important because from esxi 6.5U1 onwards, the C++<br>
> based vsphere client no longer works.<br>
><br>
> Most newer Linux distributions (Centos 7, Mint 18, Fedora, etc.) seem to be<br>
> shipping with these capabilities already build in. Presumably they are all<br>
> using open-vm-tools, but that's purely conjecture on my part.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/vmware/<wbr>open-vm-tools</a><br>
><br>
> A search of the OI-discuss archives suggests there was once such a package.<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
><br>
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