From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 21 02:22:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21429625 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:22:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emul-jfbml@snkmail.com) Received: from sneak2.sneakemail.com (sneak2.sneakemail.com [38.113.6.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B3A78FC0A for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18535 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (192.168.0.1) by sneak2.sneakemail.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 -0000 Received: from 206.168.13.214 by mail.sneakemail.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 30626-1350786134-225221 #2); 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 30626-1350786134-225221 #1); 21 Oct 2012 02:22:25 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:20:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <30626-1350786134-225221@sneakemail.com> From: "John Hein" To: emulation@freebsd.org To: Josh Paetzel , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Open-vm-tools In-Reply-To: References: <22510-1350770999-468572@sneakemail.com> X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:22:27 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote at 17:54 -0500 on Oct 20, 2012: > On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:07 PM, "John Hein" wrote: > > vmware != virtualbox > > The documentation I was able to find on that command don't indicate > it's vmware specific. The open-vm-tools themselves are not vmware > specific. > > If that command really is only useful for detecting vmware > environments then it shouldn't be used in the startup script for > tools which aren't vmware specific. Where do you see an indication that open-vm-tools is for any virtualization environments other than vmware?