Bug#707676: src:linux: Improve VMware support by including vcmci and vmsock in Wheezy kernel

[Mathieu Parent <math.parent@gmail.com>]

Package: src:linux
Version: 3.2.41-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: wheezy fixed-upstream
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, mail@daniel-baumann.ch

Hi Kernel Team,

VMware VMCI (Virtual Machine Communication Interface - i.e vmci) and
VMware VM sockets (vmsock) were integrated in Linux 3.9 [kn39]. In
wheezy, they can be installed using open-vm-dkms. Unfortunately, it is
not on Debian installer and also requires Kernel headers and build
toolchain to be installed.

vmsock is necessary to pass parameters to the VM [guestinfo].

vmci is a requirement to vmsock.

As mentionned on the Kernel Newbies page, the code is at:
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci
  commits: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/vmw_vsock
  commits: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/net/vmw_vsock

I have not tested to include them in 3.2.

Would it be ok to include it. If so, do you need some help?

Regards

Mathieu Parent

[kn39]: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.9#line-203
[guestinfo]: http://tech.lazyllama.com/2010/06/22/passing-info-from-powercli-into-your-vm-using-guestinfo-variables/