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vmware-kmp-pae: Open Virtual Machine Tools

Name:	vmware-kmp-pae	Vendor:	openSUSE
Version:	2008.08.08_2.6.27.7_9.1	License:	BSD 3-Clause; GPL v2 only; LGPL v2.1 only
Release:	5.1	URL:	http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

Summary

Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are tied to a specific virtualization platform. With the Open Virtual Machine Tools project, we are hoping to solve this and other related problems. The tools are currently composed of kernel modules for Linux and user-space programs for all VMware supported Unix-like guest operating systems. They provide several useful functions like: * File transfer between a host and guest * Improved memory management and network performance under virtualization * General mechanisms and protocols for communication between host and guests and from guest to guest Authors: -------- The VMware Guest Components Team

Changelog

* Sun Aug 24 14:00:00 2008 dominique@leuenberger.net

- Added open-vm-tools-2008-08-08-2.6.27-kernel.patch to compile on
  more recent kernels (patch should be merged in next release)
  TODO: the modules vmci and vsock are not built yet

* Fri Aug 22 14:00:00 2008 dominique@leuenberger.net

- added packageand(open-vm-tools:xorg-x11) to Supplements
  of open-vm-tools-gui sub package

* Fri Aug 22 14:00:00 2008 dominique@leuenberger.net

- Re-arranged comments for the configure line. Apparently, comments
  that appear in a line continuing on the next line, split using '\'
  break the flow

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