{"id":60,"date":"2007-09-12T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-09-12T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:29:36","slug":"open-source-vmware-guest-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Open source VMware guest tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a work related post in quite some time, but I&#8217;ve got a good reason now.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we announced that we&#8217;re open-sourcing most parts of our Linux\/FreeBSD\/Solaris guest tools. You can see the site with details of what&#8217;s present (including kernel modules) <a href=\"http:\/\/open-vm-tools.sf.net\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is genuinely a big deal &#8211; it opens the door to integrating the tools into distros so that a newly created vm starts up with all the tools in place and updates to them come through the standard distro mechanisms. I also hope we see them ported to other operating systems. If you wished your favourite boutique OS had full guest support, now it can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a work related post in quite some time, but I&#8217;ve got a good reason now. Yesterday, we announced that we&#8217;re open-sourcing most parts of our Linux\/FreeBSD\/Solaris guest tools. You can see the site with details of what&#8217;s present (including kernel modules) here. I think this is genuinely a big deal &#8211; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}