Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S,
On 10/28/22 18:29, Theo de Raadt wrote: Kalabic S. wrote: Also, OpenBSD really is part of BSD family. That is such a load of crap. You have absolutely no idea what vmware is doing behind the scenes based upon that string. Obviously, it is doing stuff. But you want to say "oh f

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S,
On 10/28/22 19:06, Mike Larkin wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 06:25:11PM +0200, Kalabic S. wrote: In my testing, this has no effect on the operation of the clock. Only the guest OS selected in the VM configuration does have an effect. We should remove any suggestion that 32bit FreeBSD

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-28 Thread Kalabic S.
> In my testing, this has no effect on the operation of the clock. Only > the guest OS selected in the VM configuration does have an effect. > We should remove any suggestion that 32bit FreeBSD is the right thing > to select though, so changing the guest OS we report is still a good > idea. >

Re: VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-27 Thread Kalabic S,
On 10/27/22 20:02, Mike Larkin wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 07:39:03PM +0200, Kalabic S. wrote: Hello @misc, I do not see a reason not to update OS version that vmt (kernel level implementation of VMware Tools) is advertising to VMware hypervisor from 32 bit FreeBSD to 64 bit version

VMware Tools driver to advertise OS as 'FreeBSD 64-bit' OS, not 32-bit version

2022-10-26 Thread Kalabic S.
Hello @misc, I do not see a reason not to update OS version that vmt (kernel level implementation of VMware Tools) is advertising to VMware hypervisor from 32 bit FreeBSD to 64 bit version. If for nothing else, there's clock running forward issue that appeared in 7.2 release and that is