Okay. So going forward, vmt(4) is being deprecated in favor of the new 
open-vm-tools port?

Thanks,
Alex

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, at 2:53 AM, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:45:31PM +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > A quick look at upstream seems to indicate that they still use
> > `info-set guestinfo.ip %s', but there's also much more in the
> > open-vm-tools code I didn't look at (yet):
> > 
> > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/guestInfo/guestInfoServer.c#L2327
> > 
> I just sent a new port for open-vm-tools to ports@ that works just fine
> with and without vmt(4) running while proving NicInfo objects and much
> more.
> 
> This should fix Packer as well.
> 

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