On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:58:25AM -0700, Alex Long wrote: > Okay. So going forward, vmt(4) is being deprecated in favor of the new > open-vm-tools port? The package can do everything the driver does and more, but it also requires pkg_add and rcctl to work opposed to just a default base installation in order to automatically provide basic information to the host.
Since package and driver do not seem to conflict according to my tests, there's no need to directly remove vmt(4) after importing the package. In the long run however --if there are no problems with open-vm-tools on OpenBSD-- I don't see why we should keep and maintain our own driver. vmt(4) came to be before open-vm-tools was a thing and until now noone simply ported it to OpenBSD; other than that, there seem to be no specific reasons not to use upstream's code.
