On 2025-01-05, Kirill A Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> 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
>
I'm not familiar with how it communicates with the host but parts of
open-vm-tools require loadable kernel modules, and it's unlikely that
there will be any way that the userland parts can communicate with the
host without a kernel driver of some sort (which would be done via
a loadable module on other OS). Other parts of open-vm-tools seem to
need libfuse 3 (probably in addition to kernel drivers). We don't
have either of these.
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