Sunday, January 05, 2025

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

as im sure others have mentioned...  right there at the main-result of search...  Decomm at end-of-Jan-2025  open-vm-tools is not something that is even designed with obsd in mind...  it is for linux (or maybe the compatibility-layer to linux in freebsd) primarily...

Note: Use of open-vm-tools with a OS distribution which is not listed under VMware Compatibility Guide must be certified by VMware.

imho - it seems fairly obvious that "certification from Broadcom" is not something that is interesting for obsd-devs...  not an ISC/MIT-type licensing agreement, im sure...  in particular, as a GUEST os in a vmware hypervisor - i doubt that there are hardware-guarantees that obsd (as opposed to actual h/w) wants to make...  obsd has its own hypervisor vmd, which is well-supported for deploying further obsd-guests...

anyways, gl on your experiences with obsd...  :-)

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