That's pretty disheartening but I certainly don't have the skill level or the time table to port open-vm-tools. BB10 is Linux based so to the right person I'm sure it's not nearly as much of a bear as it could be. However, the Blackberry team didn't bother to do this, so I can't imagine it's THAT easy.
I'm just surprised about IP detection; I know the 'Controller' executable that Blackberry bundles with the simulator download can detect the IP address of a running simulator. And the VMWare player shows me the IP address in the lower left corner. So the Player knows the IP... that VIX cannot ask the player directly for the IP and instead has to ask the guest OS is kind of a pain.
I can probably use a native windows lib to capture the window area using an IntPtr to the window handle. But that's going to get me the window chrome and the black margin around the display representing the off-screen dragging area for off-screen swipe actions.