On 1/8/21 10:50 AM, Klemens Nanni wrote: > This is a straight forward port that I've tested against ESXi 7.0U1: > > Information for inst:open-vm-tools-11.2.0 > > Comment: > Open VMware tools for VMware guests > > Description: > open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several > features in > VMware products for better management of, and seamless user > interactions with, > guests. It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of > virtual > machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest > operating > systems. > > Maintainer: Klemens Nanni <k...@openbsd.org> > > WWW: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools > > With vmt(4) enabled (default), it is enough to do set basic values with > `vmware-rpctool "info-set ..."', i.e. `vmtoolsd' does not have to run. > > With vm(4) disabled (`boot -c ; disable vmt ; exit') is it enough to > start the daemon in order to populate all relevant guestinfo values > including the IP addresses which vmt(4) currently does not work for > anymore. > > I turned off basically all optional functionality for now to ease > initial porting, but that still leaves users the complete RPC client and > various features I could not test (yet). > > All of the 39 patches consist of small hunks that basically add > a preprocessor check for OpenBSD in every place where FreeBSD already > has one - besides minor differences that were equally simple to adapt. > > Those hunks that merely check for OpenBSD such that it bulds can be > upstreamed as is, the minority which change or implement behaviour > should get more looks and tests before trying to upstream them. > > Select features such as the Wiper (wipe virtual disk via RPC) are > effectively NOOPs for now in so far as their init routines always return > false (for OpenBSD). > > Once this is tested and in-tree, we can test and add more features one > by one; X and therefore clipboard support for example seem handy. > > > Feedback? OK? > Can't put into any plist (no applicable prefix): /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd /etc/vmware-tools /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example /sbin/mount.vmblock
/etc/pam.d should be @commented, tools.conf.example should go into $PREFIX/share/examples/vmware-tools. For mount.vmblock I do not know if it's of any use. Giovanni
