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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 12.4.5nb5, Package name: open-vm-tools-12.4.5nb5, Maintainer: agc

The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source
implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating
system virtualization components that enhance performance and user
experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly
becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements
their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual
machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are
tied to a specific virtualization platform.

The tools are currently composed of kernel modules for Linux and
user-space programs for all VMware supported Unix-like guest operating
systems. They provide several useful functions like:

* File transfer between a host and guest
* Improved memory management and network performance under
virtualization
* General mechanisms and protocols for communication between host
and guests and from guest to guest

MESSAGE.x11 [+/-]

Required to run:
[sysutils/desktop-file-utils] [textproc/icu] [net/libdnet] [security/openssl] [devel/glib2] [x11/libXtst] [security/xml-security-c] [graphics/gdk-pixbuf2-xlib] [x11/gtkmm3] [archivers/libmspack]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Package options: icu, x11

Master sites:

Filesize: 4254.504 KB

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   2024-11-17 08:17:06 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (944) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for default-on option of at-spi2-core
   2024-11-14 23:22:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2429) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump
   2024-11-01 13:55:19 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2426) 
Log message:
*: revbump for icu downgrade
   2024-11-01 01:54:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2427) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump
   2024-08-08 10:51:52 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
open-vm-tools: updated to 12.4.5

12.4.5
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.5/ReleaseNotes.md
   2024-05-29 18:35:19 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (1929) | Package updated
Log message:
revbump after icu and protobuf updates
   2024-05-10 09:31:46 by Masatake Daimon | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
sysutils/open-vm-tools: kern/58195: Detach NetBSD vmt(4) before starting vmtoolsd

On NetBSD/aarch64 this currently only works on -CURRENT, but doing this on
older kernels is at least harmless because drvctl requests are simply
rejected. On any other OSes this should change nothing.
   2024-04-09 03:12:36 by Masatake Daimon | Files touched by this commit (10) 
Log message:
sysutils/open-vm-tools: Update to 12.4.0

open-vm-tools now supports NetBSD/aarch64. At least vmhgfs-fuse has been
confirmed to be working on this platform. vmware-user is still useless
though, because it requires either Wayland running on top of recent DRM/KMS
supporting SVGA v3 (which hasn't been ported to NetBSD as of writing) or
xf86-video-vmware, which only supports SVGA v1 and v2. VMware only provides
SVGA v3 interface on AArch64 platforms so nothing can interact with VMware
graphics aside from the standard framebuffer (via xf86-video-wsfb) at the
moment.

Release notes:
* https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.4.0/ReleaseNotes.md
* https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/ReleaseNotes.md
* https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md
* https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.5/ReleaseNotes.md