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VMware Tools for Synology DSM

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VMware Tools for Synology DSM

This is a port of the open-vm-tools implementation of VMware Tools to the Synology DSM platform.

Here you will find ready-built binary installable SPK packages for DSM, together with the necessary sources, should you choose to build it yourself.

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open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guest operating systems.

Specifically, this port enables interaction with a virtualised Synology DSM running as a VMware guest VM. A typical host runs the VMware ESXi hypervisor.

open-vm-tools is open source software released under GPL v2 and GPL v2 compatible licenses.

More information can be found at the official open-vm-tools source repository.

Synology DSM Package (SPK) Files

SPK packages are found under the Release section. SPK releases track open-vm-tools versions from the upstream project.

Filenames are in the form

open-vm-tools_[Arch]-[DSM ver]_[open-vm-tools ver]-[build].spk

[Arch] is the CPU architecture supported by the package. Use the correct one that matches the intended Synology hardware model. This can be found in the official Synology knowledge base.

[DSM ver] is the minimum Synology DSM version supported by the package.

[open-vm-tools ver] is the open-vm-tools version matching the upstream releases.

[build] is the incremental build number. Get the latest available to benefit from more recent patches built from upstream hotfixes.

For example, to install open-vm-tools 10.3.10 on a Synology NAS model DS3615xs (Package Arch: Bromolow) running DSM 6.5, download a package file named open-vm-tools_bromolow-6.1_10.3.10-xx.spk which supports DSM versions 6.1 and above.

Build Tooling

Builds are created using the cross-compilation framework provided by the spksrc project from SynoCommunity.

spksrc is open source software released under the BSD license.

More information, including instructions to build this and many other projects relying on spksrc, can be found at the official SynoCommunity/spksrc source repository.