Improvements include:
- Improved OS detection and reporting for FreeBSD 11 and 12.
- Improved networking resume for DHCP FreeBSD guests.
- Check for Xen, VirtualPC etc., only if VMware not detected.
- Improve timesync when the offset is large.
Full changelog is available at:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog
PR: 221194
The current port patches for os_kmem_alloc() add VM object locking.
However, the lock is not unlocked in the success case because the
unlock code is inside of an if body instead of after the if statement.
Reported by: jpaetzel
Reviewed by: jpaetzel
Approved by: swills
MFH: 2017Q3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12038
Make it possible to disable the rc scripts.
Still default to enabled, but only when checkvm says we are in a VM.
While here, improve scripts slightly.
Requested by: mat
Tested by: mat
sysctl_add_oid was changed in base/head@r310051 to take a label parameter,
and open-vm-tools doesn't supply it as it depends on the old KPI signature.
SYSCTL_ADD_OID doesn't require the label parameter since its inception
though, thus it's a backwards compatible solution for adding sysctl oids.
PR: 215353
Reported by: dim
Submitted by: ed
Reviewed by: ed, lwhsu
Approved by: lwhsu
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9698
Gnome 3.14.1 and Cinnamon 2.2.16 are supported on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE and up.
This commit removes the old GNOME 2 desktop, bindings and some ports that
can't be compiled. A few ports where updated to more recent versions to
allow them to compile with this update.
Apart from updating ports to newer versions
GDM is more integrated with gnome-shell now, and handles several things for
the GNOME desktop such as screen locking. If you want to use GNOME 3 via
startx, you will have to add your own lock screen/screensaver. For example xscreensaver
can be used for sessions started without GDM.
Shell Extensions can be installed via https://extensions.gnome.org/ , we have
ported a few that can't be installed via this way.
The old gnome-utils and gnome-games ports where split up into single ports
and where converted to meta-ports.
gnome-terminal requires a UTF-8 locale to run, gdm handles this already, but
if you use startx you need to do this yourself.
Upgrade instructions:
Delete the old and conflicting packages:
# pkg delete clutter gnome-utils gnome-panel gnome-keyring vala-vapigen \
guile gcalctool gnome-media libgnomekbd
# pkg delete gnome-screensaver gnome-applets bug-buddy evolution-exchange \
evolution-webcal gnome-system-tools seahorse-plugins gnome-control-center
For package users the following lines will be enough:
# pkg upgrade
# pkg install gnome3
For ports users should do the following:
# portmaster -a
# portmaster x11/gnome3
We are currently aware of two issues. The first issue is a bug in the
file monitoring code in the glib20 port. This bug causes glib programs
to crash when files in a monitored directory are added or removed.
Upstream is aware of the problem, but since the problem is quite complex
there is no solution yet. This problem isn't restricted to BSD.
The second issue is that on certain video cards totem will display a
purple/pink overlay on the video. It not clear yet where the issues
comes from.
Major thanks goes to Gustau Perez for being a driving force behind getting
GNOME 3 up to speed again. Also thanks to Antoine Brodin for running the exp-runs.
This update was also made possible by:
Joe Maloney
Kris Moore
Beeblebrox
Ryan Lortie
Antoine Jacoutot
and everyone I missed
when accessing port that is not accessible, which is the case when
running vmware-vmcheck on bare metal system.
Approved by: swills (maintainer)
Obtained from: FreeNAS
- Commit open-vm-tools-nox11 part of conversion to optionsNG missed in last
commit [1]
- Fix plist issue with open-vm-tools-nox11 with optionsNG enabled
PR: ports/183893 [1]
Submitted by: mat
- changes that were applied by several people, one change (mine, the actual upgrade) made hgfs unloadable.
- other changes along the way, attempting to fix it made port broken were also backed out
- Only patches left were DougB's rc script patches
- Bump PORTEPOCH
PR: ports/161891
Submitted by: scheidell (me)
Approved by: ports@ (maintainer, implicit), gabor (mentor)
- patch Makefile/plist/pkg-message to prevent install of broken vmhgfs, suggested by swills
- Add USE_AUTOMAKE=yes to keep build from taking two passes, and keep tinderbox happy
Submitted by: swills [1]
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().
In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.
Add vfs layer fixes for recent FreeBSD CURRENT
Vmtools-guestd has been replaced by vmtoolsd
PR: ports/134879
Submitted by: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@freebsd.org>
