Debian Bug report logs - #612498
please add kfreebsd support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Please support kFreeBSD port

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:48:24 +0100

Package: open-vm-source
Severity: normal

Hi,

as kFreeBSD is now official arch as per Squeeze release, please also
include that arch into open-vm-* tools. According to the website the
support should be all there.

Best regards,
Kilian

Message #22 received at 612498@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>

To: 612498@bugs.debian.org, 612498-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: please add kfreebsd support

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:24:56 +0100

tag 612498 help
thanks

i've no clue about kfreebsd, but i'm happy to apply a patch, can you
provide one?

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Address:        Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Message #32 received at 612498-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>

To: 612498-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: please add kfreebsd support

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:36:48 +0100

no follow up from submitter, closing.

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Address:        Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Message #37 received at 612498@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robin Elfrink <robin@15augustus.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <612498@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: open-vm-tools: Preliminary support for kfreebsd

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:48:41 +0000

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Source: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:8.8.0+2011.10.26-514583-1
Followup-For: Bug #612498

Hello,


I managed to add preliminary support for kfreebsd to open-vm-tools.

Placing attached patch '02-kfreebsd.patch' in debian/patches, adding the filename to
debian/patches/series and adding 'libkvm-dev' to Build-Depends makes open-vm-tools build .deb files.

What works:
- vmtoolsd runs
- virtual center recognizes the vm's hostname

What does not work:
- virtual center does not recognize the vm's ip address
  ('Failed to get nic info.' in /var/log/messages)
- probably everything else



Hopefully this patch can be used as a starter for full open-vm-tools support on kfreebsd.



Robin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.2-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

[02-kfreebsd.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #42 received at 612498@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>

To: Robin Elfrink <robin@15augustus.nl>

Cc: 612498@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#612498: open-vm-tools: Preliminary support for kfreebsd

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:49:15 +0100

On 11/18/2011 10:48 AM, Robin Elfrink wrote:
> I managed to add preliminary support for kfreebsd to open-vm-tools.

great.

can you please send this to upstream at 
open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net for inclusion? note that the 
list might be subscriber-only, and note that they might ask you to sign 
their contributor agreement: 
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php

in the meanwhile, i prefere not adding the patch just yet, since it's 
relatively big and it will break with upstreams next open-vm code drop, 
which means the patch is constantly needed to be updated and updated 
again for each monthly new upstream release upload. i'm not currently 
not interested nor capable myself to do that (no clue about {,k}freebsd 
myself). or would you volunteer to do that on a permanent basis?

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Address:        Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

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