uaie informed me in #gentoo-bsd on freenode that Gentoo FreeBSD does not have proper drivers for VMWare ESXi. I committed a modified app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.05.21.724730 ebuild to an overlay that adds FreeBSD support. https://github.com/ryao/gentoofan-overlay/tree/master/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod Note that I wrote the following patches: open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.05.21.724730-fbsd-hgfscloseint-return.patch open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.05.21.724730-fbsd-vmhgfs-makefile.patch open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.05.21.724730-fbsd-vmhgfs-debug.patch The the remaining patches are from FreeBSD ports. I changed the names to match Gentoo naming conventions, although I am not sure if that is the right thing to do. Maybe it might be better to place them in "${FILESDIR}/contrib" with the file names unchanged. Please let me know what needs to be done for this work to enter the main tree.
I erroneously listed open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.05.21.724730-fbsd-vmhgfs-makefile.patch as one of the patches I wrote. That one is from FreeBSD. It replaced a patch that I began to write for the same failures.
Hi Richard, the ebuilds here are out of date, but if you are willing to update your stuff and eventually maintain it, feel free to commit it to the main tree. Three request: 1) please encapsulate everything you do into if use freebsd... # applying patches ... fi - _also_ the freebsd-specific patches. (I know that normally conditional patching is discouraged, but imho here it makes sense.) 2) please add yourself in metadata then too 3) please commit identical ebuilds to the vmware overlay (all devs may push there, and right now it "mirrors" the vmware packages from the main tree, we may change that policy soon though).
(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #2) > Hi Richard, > > the ebuilds here are out of date, but if you are willing to update your > stuff and eventually maintain it, feel free to commit it to the main tree. > > Three request: > > 1) please encapsulate everything you do into > if use freebsd... > # applying patches > ... > fi > - _also_ the freebsd-specific patches. (I know that normally conditional > patching is discouraged, but imho here it makes sense.) > > 2) please add yourself in metadata then too > > 3) please commit identical ebuilds to the vmware overlay (all devs may push > there, and right now it "mirrors" the vmware packages from the main tree, we > may change that policy soon though). Ping. The vmware overlay is dead, in-tree maintenance only.
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