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echo: linux-ubuntu
to: RICK CHRISTIAN
from: SAMPSA LAINE
date: 2016-10-19 19:36:00
subject: Re: VM to OpenVZ VPS

-=> rick christian wrote to Sampsa Laine <=-

 SL> Don't install VMware tools on the local image of course.

 rc> the tools for either are really more for the desktop VM setups where
 rc> they need special shims for X. 99% of what we do VM wise is headless
 rc> where those tools don't offer anything.

I use them sometimes to share files between the VM and the host, but have
basically set up a FreeNAS VM for that now.

Most modern distros come with like a OpenVM Tools thing anyway so they're
not that useful, I agree.

Sampsa

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