{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-18T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-02-18T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:02:08","slug":"open-source-vmware-guest-tools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Open Source VMware Guest Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve mentioned these <a href=\"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=60\">before<\/a> but Dan Williams&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/dcbw\/2008\/02\/18\/hey-vmware-set_netdev_dev-wants-a-word-with-you\/\">blog post<\/a> about SET_NETDEV_DEV in the vmxnet driver clearly tells me I need to try and publicise these more. Back in September last year we open-sourced the Linux and BSD guest tools &#8211; including all the kernel drivers. So, if you found a problem in a driver (or any other part of the tools), you have an avenue for discussion and for submitting patches at the tools <a href=\"http:\/\/open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net\">web page<\/a>. Or you can just go there to get the latest version &#8211; and it happens to be the case that SET_NETDEV_DEV support has been there for a while (Workstation 6.0.x is a comparatively old codebase). So, hopefully Dan reads this (couldn&#8217;t find a way to post comments) and can go and get the latest version which fixes his problem. I guess today&#8217;s question is: If things change for the better and you don&#8217;t notice, did anything really change at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve mentioned these before but Dan Williams&#8217; blog post about SET_NETDEV_DEV in the vmxnet driver clearly tells me I need to try and publicise these more. Back in September last year we open-sourced the Linux and BSD guest tools &#8211; including all the kernel drivers. So, if you found a problem in a driver [&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-68","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\/68"}],"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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}