Open-vm-tools

John Hein emul-jfbml at snkmail.com
Sun Oct 21 02:22:27 UTC 2012


Josh Paetzel wrote at 17:54 -0500 on Oct 20, 2012:
 > On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:07 PM, "John Hein" <emul-jfbml at snkmail.com> 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?



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