Universal* service script for open-vm-tools (based on corresponding systemd service file)

README.md

This is my attempt of making open-vm-tools work on Artix (based on runit). After a lot of failures I came out with these.

Dependencies

• dmidecode to read the machine info (so that script don't run when not running with VMware)

You can adapt this to whatever init system (or script) you want.

vmblock-fuse

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# this is translated from the systemd file, there may be errors

# check if os is virtualized on vmware
if [ "$(dmidecode -s system-product-name)" != "VMware Virtual Platform" ]; then exit 0; fi

# create runtime directory
if [ ! -d "/run/vmblock-fuse" ]
then
  mkdir -p "/run/vmblock-fuse"
  chmod 755 "/run/vmblock-fuse"
fi

# start the service
/usr/bin/vmware-vmblock-fuse -d -f -o subtype=vmware-vmblock,default_permissions,allow_other /run/vmblock-fuse

vmtoolsd

#!/usr/bin/env sh

/usr/bin/vmtoolsd # well, what do you expect?

thanks for the script!

Could you please guide me what to do with these scripts? I can't seem to get open-vm-tools to work on my artix installation.
Thanks