On 4/21/24 00:09, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
Can anybody enlighten me regards the vmt driver? I have a few VMs running under VMWare Workstation (17.5.1 at present) and Player. My console is spammed by continuous messages, repeating
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which makes the console unusable. I guess I can disable vmt, these will disappear, but I don't know what the consequences of this would be.
I could reproduce the problem and filed a PR with a patch: https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=58195
There are no consequences in disabling vmt(4) if you intend to use open-vm-tools. In fact it turned out that using both vmt(4) and open-vm-tools had never been a good idea. It's just that some recent-ish changes to vmt(4) caused the issue to rise up to the surface instead of silently going non-functional.
I will commit the patch if nobody objects. I'll then update the rc script for sysutils/open-vm-tools so that it disables the vmt(4) driver before launching vmtoolsd.