[oi-dev] Xorg vmware_drv resize problem? (OI vmware guest)

[Gordon Ross]

Oh,  that's interesting.  The notes on https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
mention that some distributions ship two packages, one "base" with just the
system components to support things like graceful power control etc, and
another "desktop" package with dependencies on the base and X11.

We'll probably want to do something like that, I guess.


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Aurélien Larcher
<aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Michael Kruger <makruger2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/27/2017 10:54 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried after another update yesterday.  Same problem.
>>>
>>> After a little more experimenting, and I noticed that copy/paste
>>> between the Windows host and the guest no longer work either.
>>> As I understand it, both copy/paste and resize involve an interaction
>>> between the hypervisor and the guest, and the vmware tools ("guest
>>> additions") are a key part of the "plumbing" for those interactions.
>>> Given that discovery, I suspect this is likely to be a compatibility
>>> problem between the vmware Xorg driver and the vmware tools (provided
>>> by vmware).
>>> I wonder if it would be worth trying to build one of the "open vmware
>>> tools" open-source packages.
>>> Anyone have suggestions which to try?
>>
>>
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> I personally have not had the best of luck when installing vmware tools on
>> OpenIndiana. Regardless of whether it was ESXi or the workstation player,
>> the screen never auto-resized for me, and the mouse, once captured, would
>> not escape the VM without doing a CRTL + ALT. No matter what I tried, Xorg
>> just wouldn't load the virtual mouse driver.
>>
>> I also noticed the mouse does not work at all when using the new
>> ESXI/VSphere web client. This came up in discussion last year.
>>
>> This is actually pretty important because from esxi 6.5U1 onwards, the C++
>> based vsphere client no longer works.
>>
>> Most newer Linux distributions (Centos 7, Mint 18, Fedora, etc.) seem to
>> be shipping with these capabilities already build in. Presumably they are
>> all using open-vm-tools, but that's purely conjecture on my part.
>>
>> https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
>>
>> A search of the OI-discuss archives suggests there was once such a
>> package.
>
>
> The component actually lives in oi-userland:
>
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/sysutils/open-vm-tools
>
> It is one of the components in the queue for fixing with gcc-6.
> I think Alexander had a look earlier yesterday and mentioned that X11
> support is not enabled.
> Also it is only provided as 32-bit binary.
>
>>
>>
>> Michael
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