[haiku] Re: VMW tools as (optional) package

  • From: Vincent DUVERT <vincent.duvert@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:07:44 +0100


Le 24 janv. 09 à 23:40, Joseph Liu a écrit :

At a minimun, a virtualization package should support screen resizing (both "resize the host window according to resolution" and "change resolution according to host window size"), proper mouse handling, clipboard sharing,
folder sharing, and file drag n'drop.


Since VMware has opensourced their tools[1] for linux, you don't need
to reverse engineer the protocol.
I found these other tools :
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html
These are much simpler than the official VMWare opensource tools, and they can be compiled (almost) directly in Haiku ! I tested the clipboard sharing, the pointer cursor location, and the shared folder. Works very well. Screenshot of the vmftp tool, sending a file from the Haiku desktop to a shared folder in Mac OS X :
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2843/image2ws1.png

Vincent

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