From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 8 12:38:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F886BF for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 12:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA837C2C for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 12:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 66-189-39-69.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([66.189.39.69] helo=Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua34v-0004ar-3M; Wed, 08 May 2013 08:02:44 -0400 Received: from Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FA081E31378; Wed, 8 May 2013 08:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <518A3EDA.1040303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 08:02:34 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <201305081109.r48B9sg7066756@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <201305081109.r48B9sg7066756@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 66.189.39.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Subject: Re: VMware tools for FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 12:38:08 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/8/13 7:09 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) > guest. > > I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools: > > - the linux one are working, but I woul prefere a more native > FreeBSD > > - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guest6d ? It fails > with not finding vmware-guestd. > > - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools6 ? It seems > it needs vmware-guest6d as a prerequisite. > > What else? All documentation I find on the web refers to a > VMwareTools for FreeBSD, that I could not locate. > > Help please. > > Olivier Hi Olivier, If you want to install the official VMware guest tools for FreeBSD, check pages 25-26 in this document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-tools-installation-configuration.pdf If you have any further questions, please reply here and we'll go from there. Best of luck, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGKPtoACgkQ0sRouByUApAhsQCfTH77ZqtdqEpqBNc9brUyUwW8 j/0An3Ho9UW8u+Yp2pTEqnwUzjkiejS1 =r8zT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----