On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 06:05:04PM +0000, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 10:50:23AM +0100, 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? > > > > Does vmtoolsd populate all the values (IP addresses, etc) when vmt(4) is > also running? > > -ml >
NM, saw the later reply on bugs@.
