[X2Go-Dev] Problem with X2Go and VMWare Tools

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 20:13 +0100, newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de wrote:
> Am 18.02.2012 19:54, schrieb Daniel Lindgren:
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> <soapbox>
> The hassle with having to install vmware tools in every guest to perform 
> a soft power-off, and keeping the tools up-to-date and matching the 
> currently installed kernel is one of the many reasons why I'm moving my 
> customers away from VMware to KVM+libvirt.  Of course, they were using 
> VMware Server, not ESXi, but honestly, my personal opinion after years 
> of using VMware products in multiple scenarios is, if you aren't forced 
> to use VMware (upper management decisions, already existing virtual 
> infrastructure based on VMware components,...), don't.  Had KVM been 
> available and in a usable state 6 years ago, I would never have touched 
> VMware Server.  VMware Workstation is kind of neat for debugging/demoing 
> stuff, though, I have to admit that.
> 
> Shutting down a guest in KVM/libvirt works by sending an ACPI 
> "power-button pressed" event to the guest, no special drivers/modules 
> required, just the stock ACPI support present in every modern operating 
> system, be it Linux, *BSD or Windows.
> </soapbox>
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Likewise, if we're not using VServer, we're using KVM - John