Sunday, January 05, 2025

Re: Request for open-vm-tools Package on OpenBSD

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:13:14 +0100,
Kyo Ichikawa <kyo.ichikawa38@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried downloading it from GitHub and building it myself, but I
> couldn't succeed. Is it due to licensing issues that it's not included?
> If so, that's truly unfortunate.
>

As far as I can see it has at least GPL license which is ok for ports.

But it defently need to be ported to OpenBSD. Some part migth work out of
the box, some needs some love, and some won't work at all.

Here, you may compare "support" of FreeBSD:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avmware%2Fopen-vm-tools%20FreeBSD&type=code
with OpenBSD:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avmware%2Fopen-vm-tools+OpenBSD&type=code

--
wbr, Kirill

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