Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:44:12 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Message-ID: <fqm7s6$o7j$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200803041243.36474.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> <200803041150.21032.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <47CD8550.2000507@verysmall.org> <200803041243.36474.dyioulos@firstbhph.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8F21CF8B0FC62ED5CD8B036F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: >> It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) >> >> Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem an= d >> who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? >> >> I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work. >> > That would, indeed, be good to know. Um, I've read this thread and I still don't get what is the supposed problem is here? I'm using VMWare all the time with FreeBSD since 6.0 and here are my experiences: - The only thing that VMWare tools are useful (on FreeBSD) is to get GUI features like clipboard sharing and automatic mouse focus grab in X.Org. VMWare tools on Linux seem to include a driver that does something with memory management, but it's not available for FreeBSD. You don't need VMWare Tools for the following things to work: networking, timer, X.Org G= UI. - Networking is handled by the le driver (in the old versions of FreeBSD there was lnc) or the em driver. These two will work without any special configuration of FreeBSD. To use the em driver, you might need to modify the VM configuration to include "ethernet0.virtualDev =3D "e1000" " or a similar appropriate line. To use the VMWare vmxnet driver (which as far as I can see isn't much different than the le driver), you need to build a kernel without the le driver first. - Timer problems can be lessened (never solved, even with vmware tools) by reducing kern.hz to something like 50 or 100 Hz (in loader.conf), and installing ntpd. - X.Org can use the generic "vmware" display driver which is included in the default X.Org collection of drivers. Mouse, etc. are also handled generically. Don't expect great performance, but if you're using VM technology you're used to it. --------------enig8F21CF8B0FC62ED5CD8B036F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzqOsldnAQVacBcgRAnaaAKDl8ghw5/4qmUqbiDhlhpa4rs29eQCeKzRZ tMCt9SARQICpfCbRys5GVnM= =n9Ys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8F21CF8B0FC62ED5CD8B036F--
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