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Bug ID 6559114
Synopsis The mouse driver for vmware, vmmouse_drv.so, should be provided
State 10-Fix Delivered:Verified (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory xserver:xorg-server
Keywords xen
Responsible Engineer Alan Coopersmith
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix snv_66
Fixed In snv_66
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_66) , solaris_10u4(s10u4_10) (Bug ID:2149803)
Related Bugs
Submit Date 17-May-2007
Last Update Date 9-September-2008
Description
We are providing a display driver for VMware vm as vmware_drv.so.
That would be nicer if we also provide the mouse driver for VMware,
that is vmmouse_drv.so, which can be built from the xf86-input-vmmouse
source. The mouse driver binary is supposed to get installed into the
system by applying vmware-tools provided by VMware.  But, as of today
(vmware workstation 6.0), the vmware-tools contains only the driver 
built for 32-bit version of Xorg 6.9 and Xorg 7.0.  So, with the latest
Solaris Nevada running the 64-bit Xorg, the mouse driver for VMware is
not available unless one builds the driver from the source.
Work Around
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