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OS2 guest support for VMWare
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Are these tools supposed to work on ESXi server.... #6

Open os2zombie opened 1 year ago

os2zombie commented 1 year ago

Hello,

The addon works on VMware workstation. But they do not work under ESXi server. Is this a known issue are they not supposed to work under ESXi server ? I tried this under ESXi server 7.0.

Thank you,

Roderick

wwiv commented 1 year ago

Hey Roderick,

Thanks for the issue.

It's not a known issue, but I also don't have a ESXi to test on, nor really know much about how all of this was supposed to work. I looked at the openvm-tools repo and saw what calls it made, and did the same. I used the oldest (and easiest) protocol, so would have expected them to work on esxi.

I can update the readme that they don't work on esxi, but it's kinda surprising that it does not.

os2zombie commented 1 year ago

I started vmtoolsd under ESXi server 7.0, then moved the pointer around. It was locked inside the guest window. I hit the host key to return the host, moved the pointer on and off the VM window, then clicked back in the guest to get the pointer back. I tried copying something to the clipboard, then returned to the host to see if it worked, but the host clipboard was empty.

The log seems to detect the pointer is moving around only if the guest has it captured. It also seems to say it can't access the host clipboard. I use VMware Remote Console to access the guest.

vmtoolsd.log

wwiv commented 1 year ago

Just double checking, to start these did you use "start /PM vmtoolsd.exe" from startup.cmd

I don't know enough about how OS/2 running apps works to know why, but in my testing this was the only way to start it that consistently worked well.