On 2025-01-05, Kirill A Korinsky <kir...@korins.ky> wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 13:13:14 +0100, > Kyo Ichikawa <kyo.ichikaw...@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. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
