6 aug 2013 kl. 08:05 skrev Bryan Venteicher <bryanv_at_daemoninthecloset.org>: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Perhaps not, but they do support FreeBSD. I've started several support cases >> with FreeBSD-specific problems and they've fixed all so far. >> > > Yes, it is not a blackhole of support. At $JOB, we got caught by the FreeBSD > specific issue of the busted timer that was fixed. But they've less helpful > in other regards, and have more or less said FreeBSD isn't high in their > priority because it isn't Linux. > >> Are you aiming at completely replacing VMware tools, or just the device >> drivers? >> > > I'd like as much as possible to work out of the box. vmxnet3 is as far as > my current interests go. OpenBSD has a vmt device that apparently does (at > least the important bits of) what vmtoolsd does; I'll look at that closer > at some point. Cool. I didn't know about vmt. I read the CVS log in the OpenBSD tree and it actually seems to do most of what I need. Having all this working out of the box (without VMware Tools installed) would be most welcome. …but I guess VMware would consider this an unsupported configuration or something like that, which sucks if/when I need to contact their support. -- JoelReceived on Tue Aug 06 2013 - 05:32:20 UTC
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