From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 13:05:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3ED1065683 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org) Received: from mail.poughkeepsieschools.org (mail.poughkeepsieschools.org [64.72.66.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE3C8FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org) Received: from [10.20.0.10] (port=52092 helo=mbookpro.tcentral.lan) by mail.poughkeepsieschools.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (BSD WebSolutions, Inc.) (envelope-from ) id 1KbEWL-000OE5-DH (authenticated as bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org); Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:05:09 -0400 X-BSD-Virus-Check: ClamAV 0.93.1/8158 on mail.poughkeepsieschools.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:05:09 -0400 Message-Id: <0871BAFB-8855-4754-B234-5342F05ADB97@poughkeepsieschools.org> From: "B. Cook" To: John Nielsen In-Reply-To: <200809031211.34425.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:05:09 -0400 References: <6788E89C-5168-4077-8CC4-FAFE22C60E5F@poughkeepsieschools.org> <200809031211.34425.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware tools for ESX Server 3.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:05:11 -0000 On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: >> I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. >> >> Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither >> is he. >> >> Can anyone tell me what it needs? > > I usually create VM's with the Intel gigabit vNIC's which can use > FreeBSD's "em" driver. Since Xorg includes the vmmouse and vmware > video > drivers already, the main things you should be looking for are the > memory "balloon" driver and the guestd service. In the past I have > gotten > these to work by using the supplied tools (on the CD image that > is "inserted" when you select "Install VMware tools" from the host). > However it is much easier nowadays to use the free version in > ports/emulators/open-vm-tools (or open-vm-tools-nox11). > > JN Well this is the other way.. FreeBSD is the guest not the host. This is what the owner of the cluster is telling me: The tools aren't absolutely necessary but if we can we always install them in guest machines. They allow the VMWare server to gracefully shutdown the guest, improve memory management, replace the virtual NIC with a higher performance one, replace the video driver (if you are running a GUI which we aren't in this case.) etc But this machine is running fine, including the nightly snapshots. Below is the dmesg from the guest: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri Jul 11 15:42:07 EDT 2008 root@vs111.community.int:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz (2992.58-MHz 686- class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10678 Stepping = 8 Features = 0xfebfbff < FPU ,VME ,DE ,PSE ,TSC ,MSR ,PAE ,MCE ,CX8 ,APIC ,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS> Features2=0x82211> AMD Features=0x20100000 AMD Features2=0x1 real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 511385600 (487 MB) ACPI APIC Table: MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Jul 11 2008 15:39:33) acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pci0: at device 7.3 (no driver attached) vgapci0: port 0x1060-0x106f mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff,0xf4000000-0xf47fffff at device 15.0 on pci0 mpt0: port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0xf4800000-0xf4800fff irq 17 at device 16.0 on pci0 mpt0: [ITHREAD] mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.0.0 le0: port 0x1400-0x147f irq 18 at device 17.0 on pci0 le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers le0: Ethernet address: 00:50:56:83:49:9d le0: [ITHREAD] acpi_acad0: on acpi0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A sio1: [FILTER] fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xca000-0xcafff, 0xdc000-0xdffff,0xe0000-0xe3fff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 ppbus0: [ITHREAD] plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ppc0: [ITHREAD] sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2992580145 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec hptrr: no controller detected. acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 3.300MB/s transfers da0: Command Queueing Enabled da0: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2610C) Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a