[open-vm-tools-devel] [ open-vm-tools-Tracker-1805476 ] FreeBSD port of open-vm-tools

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Tracker item #1805476, was opened at 2007-10-01 01:30
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Gamester17 (gamester17)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: FreeBSD port of open-vm-tools

Initial Comment:
I like to put in a request for "Open Virtual Machine Tools for FreeBSD"

Why limit open-vm-tools to Linux?, why not port it to make it useable diretcly in BSD operating-systems such a FreeBSD.

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>Comment By: Ragavan S (ragavan_s)
Date: 2007-10-05 16:58

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Good news. We have decided to release the source for the FreeBSD ports of
the kernel modules. We plan to release all of the modules except one (the
vmblock module) under the GPL v2. We will most likely be releasing the
vmblock module under the BSD license because it is built on top of nullfs
(which is licensed under the BSD license).

We are currently going through the internal review process for
contributing this as well as cleaning up the code a bit. We hope to be able
to include this in the next drop of the tarball.

We will update this bug when the release happens.

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Comment By: Adar Dembo (adembo)
Date: 2007-10-01 01:40

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The various userlevel components (guestd, vmware-user, toolbox, etc.)
should compile and run in FreeBSD as is (we tested them in FreeBSD 6 I
believe). We didn't get a chance to test other BSD-based operating systems,
although it appears that at least one other person is trying to do that
(see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20070930225805.GA5615%40silence.homedns.org&forum_name=open-vm-tools-devel).

We also have FreeBSD ports of the kernel modules available in binary form;
we're currently evaluating whether to release them in source form, and if
so, under what license. When a conclusion about that is reached, I'll
update this bug with more information.

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