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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [GNU-linux-libre] VMware Xorg drivers |
Date: | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:24:51 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100415) |
Henry Jensen wrote:
- Debian based distros: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse and xserver-xorg-video-vmware - Fedora-based distros: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse and xorg-x11-drv-vmware- Arch based distros: xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouseI found this packages in Trisquel, BLAG and Parabola GNU/Linux. I haven't checked other free distros.I think this drivers are useful only when using a VMware Virtualisation Software Product. To the best of my knowledge none of those products is free software.
Looks like vmmouse works with other emulation software too [1].QEMU seems to provide a VMWare virtual video device [2]. AFAIK, all of QEMU is free software.
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/197337 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU#Shortcomings
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