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Description:

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.

Homepage:

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

License:

LGPL-2.1

Versions

Metadata

Description

• 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.

Maintainers

• David Seifert (soap@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: vmware/open-vm-tools
  • cpe: cpe:/a:vmware:tools

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>soap@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>David Seifert</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		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.
	</longdescription>
	<use>
		<flag name="deploypkg">Build deploypkg plugin</flag>
		<flag name="dnet">Enable support for nicinfo</flag>
		<flag name="doc">Generate API documentation</flag>
		<flag name="fuse">Enable vmblock-fuse/vmhgfs-fuse</flag>
		<flag name="gtkmm">Compile with Gtkmm and sigc++ (Recommended)</flag>
		<flag name="multimon">Enable multimon (Requires X)</flag>
		<flag name="resolutionkms">Build the linux/unix resolutionkms module</flag>
		<flag name="vgauth">Build vgauth</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">vmware/open-vm-tools</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:vmware:tools</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.5-r1 uses IUSE flag 'X' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.5-r1 uses IUSE flag 'icu' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.5-r1 uses IUSE flag 'pam' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.5-r1 uses IUSE flag 'ssl' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.10 uses IUSE flag 'X' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.10 uses IUSE flag 'icu' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.10 uses IUSE flag 'pam' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 13.0.10 uses IUSE flag 'ssl' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r5 uses IUSE flag 'X' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r5 uses IUSE flag 'icu' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r5 uses IUSE flag 'pam' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r5 uses IUSE flag 'ssl' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r3 uses IUSE flag 'X' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r3 uses IUSE flag 'icu' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r3 uses IUSE flag 'pam' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 12.5.0-r3 uses IUSE flag 'ssl' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 13.0.5-r1. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 13.0.10. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 12.5.0-r5. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 12.5.0-r3. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.

USE Flags

Files

• open-vm-tools-12.4.5-CVE-2025-41244.patch
• open-vm-tools-12.4.5-Werror.patch
• open-vm-tools-12.4.5-icu.patch
• open-vm-tools-12.4.5-xmlsec1-pc.patch
• open-vm-tools-12.5.0-c23.patch
• open-vm-tools.confd
• open-vm-tools.initd
• vgauthd.service
• vmtoolsd.service
• vmtoolsd.vgauth.service

Manifest