Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 10:16 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 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]. Like what? How would the installer use these parameters? > 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? I doubt that this will be backported to wheezy as it doesn't seem very important. I can't see any reason not to enable it for 3.9 onward, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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