Bug 209854 - Missing component 'vgauth' in emulators/open-vm-tools of FreeBSD10.3 Guest
Summary: Missing component 'vgauth' in emulators/open-vm-tools of FreeBSD10.3 Guest
Status: Closed Works As Intended
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: Steve Wills
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Reported: 2016-05-30 10:07 UTC by Yanhui He
Modified: 2017-02-27 23:20 UTC (History)
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Description Yanhui He 2016-05-30 10:07:15 UTC 
Hi,

Description of problem:

VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.0, 10.0.5, 10.1.0 included in FreeBSD 10.3. This needs to enabled as soon as possible
because it makes open-vm-tools in FreeBSD less usable than VMware Tools.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 9.4.0, 10.0.5, 10.1.0

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install open-vm-tools 9.4.6, 10.0.5, 10.1.0 package
2. Check for VGAuth service ($ ps -ef | grep -i vgauth)

Actual results: service is not running

Expected results: VGAuthService should be running

Please kindly fix this problem in FreeBSD.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Yanhui
Comment 1 Steve Wills freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-02-27 23:20:22 UTC 
vgauth is not supported by open-vm-tools on FreeBSD. Sorry. Even in the updated version, we disable it. (See PR 212471). Closing, will re-enable it when upstream supports it. Until then, please contact upstream developers.