Looking in the provided content from vyos-open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools there is only a difference in the vmware tools version (9.4.6 in open-vm-tools, 10.0.5 in vyos-open-vm-tools) (see slack)
Both versions don't ship any Linux Kernel module anymore as all of the former proprietary modules are now upstreamed in the Linux Kernel anyway (THX PPL).
Task @UnicronNL @Unicron:
- Please remove http://dev.packages.vyos.net/repositories/current/vyos/pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_10.0.5-3227872-1+vyos2+current1_amd64.deb so that VyOS ISO images will be build with Debian jessie version of open-vm-tools. Verifyed to work on my ESXi cluster.