From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 15:05:29 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 6F80B1065673 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:05:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) Received: from mail1.firstbhph.com (mail1.firstbhph.com [67.108.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D8E8FC2E for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:05:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) X-First1-MailScanner-Watermark: 1204902319.56923@vKudOEuV/r0bklTQL/h6tQ Received: from [192.168.100.52] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.firstbhph.com (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m1TF5Hgn030024 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:05:17 -0500 From: Dimitri Yioulos Organization: First 1 Financial Corporation To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:05:18 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> <200802282154.26358.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200802282154.26358.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802291005.19346.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> X-Synonym: Copied by Synonym (http://www.modulo.ro/synonym) to: archive@firstbhph.com X-First1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact First 1 Financial Corporation for more information X-First1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-First1-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-MailScanner-From: dyioulos@firstbhph.com X-MailScanner-To: archive@firstbhph.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:05:29 -0000 On Thursday 28 February 2008 9:54 pm, John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:48:43 pm Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare > > Server 1.0.4? > > guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. > > I haven't actually tried to use any version from the ports recently, > opting instead to manually use the tarball on the "CD" that gets inserted > when you select the "Install VMware Tools" option in the host. > > JN > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > From: > > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56 AM > > To: > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and > > VMware tools) > > > > > Barry Byrne wrote: > > >> I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 > > >> release on ESX > > >> server 3.0.1. > > > > > > ... > > > > > >> cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ > > >> make clean install > > >> > > >> reboot. > > > > > > I was thinking about the ports. How does the ports version compare to > > > the "official" coming with the VMware? > > > > > > Iv (Not sure if top-posting is frowned on here, but I'll follow the convention used by other lists I subscribe to, and continue this here.) Mine has been a long, strange trip in installing and making VMware Tools work on FBSD 7.0. My latest go has me installing /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/, then the VMware-supplied tools. I've already mentioned that I had to symlink libc.so.6 to get the VMware version to run. I also had to symlink /lib/libm.so.4 to /lib/libm.so.5 in order to get vmware-toolbox to work. I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I need to make work. Suggestions? Thanks. Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.