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Well it seems that there are issues with udev and VMWare. The VMWare devs |
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"find sysfs really ugly and hard to use" |
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(http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=7968&messageID=63805) |
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and it looks like we're going to have to find a workaround. |
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Apparently RH Fedora supports /etc/udev/devices (see |
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<http://people.redhat.com/~harald/udev.html>), which isn't supported in |
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Gentoo. Devices files in this dir get copied on udev startup to /dev. |
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Perhaps this would be a good idea. I can always just set |
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RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" after creating the necessary device files and/or |
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symlinks, but this seems like a bit of a cop-out ;-) But if it works, I'll |
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use it. |
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