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I haven't really noticed any issues with udev and vmware. Would you |
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care to name some? |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:07:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley |
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<fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> wrote: |
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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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