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Re: open-vm-tools



Hi Robin,

2011/11/17 Robin Elfrink <robin@15augustus.nl>:
> I've had a bit of success building open-vm-tools on kfreebsd/amd64.
>
> I have no idea if all is fine, but a package has been built, vmtoolsd is
> running, and vcenter shows the vm's hostname.

Have you tested them?

> I have a 4000+ lines patch, 160kB. Most of it came from running
> autoconf. I had to skip services/plugins/timeSync and
> services/plugins/vix. Also mount.hgfs did not build (neither did the
> kernel module) so that's not the .deb.
>
> The other changes consist mainly of changing 'if defined __FreeBSD__' to
> 'if defined __FreeBSD__ || defined __FreeBSD_kernel__', or chaning 'if
> defined linux' to 'if defined linux || defined __GLIBC__' depending on
> kernel or userspace.
>
> I'm quite sure a number of my changes are not done the proper way, but
> at least I got somewhere.
>
> If anyone is interested I can send my patch somewhere for somebody as a
> starter.

Could you remove the autogenerated autoconf bits and send the patch to
the BTS?  (with X-Debbugs-CC to this list).  Then we make sure it's
available to everyone.  We can probably work it out from there.

-- 
Robert Millan


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