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

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

2013/5/10 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
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Thanks for your quick response.

>> vmsock is necessary to pass parameters to the VM [guestinfo].
>
> Like what?  How would the installer use these parameters?

Using preseeded "d-i preseed/early_command" that set the hostname, ip
or some other things.

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> 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.

I agree that this is not very important, and has very few users.

Regards
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Mathieu Parent