9.4.6 Dyno Hongjun Fu <hfu@vmware.com> Release matching the vSphere 5.5p02 release.
modules do not work with linux > ~3.12 bunch of patches at https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches lots of current info, but still couldn't get vmhgfs working with linux 3.17.8-r1 needs more work, able to get it to compile but mounting vmhgfs hard locks system. bugs showing issues with linux > 3.12 ish bug 519822 bug 519574 bug 507026 open-vm-tools use flag modules (and the open-vm-tools-kmod.ebuild) should block with linux > 3.12 this will help bump open-vm-tools
This bug should probably be closed/obsolete now by https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544182 (app-emulation/open-vm-tools-9.10.0.2476743 - version bump)