From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 12:18:56 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 F199D1065676 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:18:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E4B8FC1B for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-RZG-AUTH: l30WrtbrzmfyRJtZ7/TtK2qIdZIgjE9K4Q55TXGhenj8TX/T1uwXx72N6A3KHw== Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([91.66.27.25]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo13) (RZmta 16.8) with ESMTP id y03f21k269LBIR for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:54 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BE457C00A for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01574-01 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 076C257C009; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:53 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080306121853.GA1314@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> <200803041150.21032.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <47CD8550.2000507@verysmall.org> <200803041243.36474.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) 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, 06 Mar 2008 12:18:57 -0000 On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > - 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. You're right, normally you don't need vmware-tools for running FreeBSD as a guest, but: if your host is an ESX server, you need vmmemctl and the vmware-guestd for the live­migration of your virtual machine from one ESX host to another. A while ago, VMware decided to release vmware-tools as open source, maybe someone wants to take a look at it: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ > 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 It is available, it's included in VMware server and also in open-vm-tools (see link above). bye, Uwe