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Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project (by vmware)

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open-vm-tools		rocky-tools
	Project
19	Mentions	19
2,166	Stars	381
0.7%	Growth	0.8%
9.1	Activity	4.9
21 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	Shell
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

open-vm-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of open-vm-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-28.

MacOS Virtualization using VMware
3 projects | dev.to | 28 Nov 2023

Install open-vm tools (this enables a slew of optimizations).
Fix for 3D acceleration in VMware Workstation 17.X (IBSRenderer / mks.Sandbox Error, svga Signal 11)
1 project | /r/vmware | 4 Oct 2023

Kudos to Raviu56 on github
VMware Tools 10346 (10.3.10) appears as Guest Managed - CentOS 7.8
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 21 Jun 2023
How to
1 project | /r/GUIX | 24 Mar 2023

I’m trying to try out Guiz in a VM (specifically VMware), and am unable to build open-vm-tools; I’m currently trying to setup a build environment using: guix shell gcc-toolchain glibc libmspack
ALPINE linux as guest, copy & paste not working
1 project | /r/virtualization | 28 Oct 2022

I can't say why Alpine Linux doesn't have that package. My guess its due to being a security focused distro it omits it because it could be seen as a security issue. If you absolutely want to use Alpine Linux you could try building it from source (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/) or us the VMware Tools ISO: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1018414
Open-vm-tools v12.1.0
1 project | /r/RockyLinux | 21 Sep 2022

I am wondering if someone have news about the updates of the open-vm-tools package for Rocky Linux (v8.6 or 9) I am trying to update them to fix the CVE 2022-31676. They are available on github but need to be compiled manually (nightmare to maintain later in a professional env) and fedore released an rpm package as well.
Les pires candidats en entretien
1 project | /r/france | 19 Sep 2022

Avec la backdoor VMware ahah.
VMware Tools update addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676) with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.0
2 projects | /r/vmware | 23 Aug 2022
Any idea why tumbleweed is not affected by this?
1 project | /r/openSUSE | 6 Jul 2022

So I think you're hitting this issue.
Remotely access Ubuntu VM on Windows for software development
1 project | /r/virtualization | 29 May 2022

Check the perfromance with open-vm-tools installed. https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

rocky-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of rocky-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-08.

Migrate to CentOS 9 Stream from Rocky 9
1 project | /r/CentOS | 5 Dec 2023
Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022

Rocky Linux has migration scripts available at https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...
An easy shortcut though, in case you have to hand type it out somewhere, is https://rockylinux.org/migrate2rocky.sh
Rocky Linux conersion script
1 project | /r/RockyLinux | 22 Nov 2022

We have a conversion script for 9 here.
CentOS-8 to Rocky Linux-8
1 project | /r/CentOS | 8 Nov 2022

https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky
What Distro did you use to replace Centos?
5 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 31 May 2022

I used Rocky Linux to migrate the CentOS 8 Servers, the migration was just done using the migrate2rocky.sh script from https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate2rocky.
Best Solution - Self Hosted - Migrating from Hostgator
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Apr 2022

You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.
Finding the proper webpanel
2 projects | /r/webhosting | 22 Mar 2022

If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.
Stuck Trying to Migrate from CentOS Linux to Rocky Linux after EOL?
2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022

I run the migration script today and I encountered this pellicular error:
Why did Greg Kurtzer leave the CentOS project in the first place?
1 project | /r/CentOS | 19 Jan 2022

migrate2rocky.sh is a 1200 line bash script that appears to call dnf dozens of times. Granted, at the time he didn't know exactly what the migration path was going to look like, so call this one a broken promise rather than a false statement.
I created a chart showing how long some of the still active independent Linux distros have been around
2 projects | /r/linux | 13 Dec 2021

It's covered in Rocky's docs and the migrate2rocky README, relevant excerpt here:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing open-vm-tools and rocky-tools you can also consider the following projects:

cloud-images - Packer templates and other tools for building AlmaLinux images for various cloud platforms.

almalinux-deploy - EL to AlmaLinux migration tool.

pipewire - Packaging fork

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

cliphist - wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia

nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)

infrastructure - The infrastructure monorepo for the Rocky Linux project. This project will be archived/deprecated in the future.

apiscp-webapp-discourse - Discourse Web App

shim-review - Reviews of shim

centos2ol - Script and documentation to switch CentOS/Rocky Linux to Oracle Linux

ragent - Learning Rust by writing a Nagios-compatible monitoring agent