From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 14:37:57 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 03A1D1065672 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:37:57 +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 834D18FC32 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:37:56 +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 (fruni mo62) (RZmta 16.10) with ESMTP id v050d6k2G9TW9u for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:37:54 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDC057C00A for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:37:54 +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 12820-04 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:37:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id DA9C857C009; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:37:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:37:51 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080316143751.GA12554@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <015101c88732$4d10f290$e732d7b0$@com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <015101c88732$4d10f290$e732d7b0$@com.au> 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: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 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: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:37:57 -0000 On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: > Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port > vmware-tools to FreeBSD. I don't know if somebody is actually preparing an official port of http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ but I don't think it's too difficult to compile and run them on FreeBSD 7.0. I hope I'll find the time to test this soon but I wouldn't be able to roll a port without some help. :) > As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are > being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers > follow as well. If you're using FreeBSD 6.x, you can use the vmware-tools that come with VMware server 1.04. I tested them with 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 and they work fine (vmmemctl.ko and vmware-guestd), including VMotion. > It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to > FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not No, it's not a licensing issue, since vmware-tools are released as open source now. I guess it's simply lack of interest and that there aren't many ESX users who are using FreeBSD as a platform. FreeBSD is not an "enterprise" system, you know... :-/ Uwe