From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 22:16:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E565FEB3 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emul-jfbml@snkmail.com) Received: from sneak2.sneakemail.com (sneak2.sneakemail.com [38.113.6.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7231B8FC12 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3826 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2012 22:10:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (192.168.0.1) by sneak2.sneakemail.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2012 22:10:10 -0000 Received: from 206.168.13.214 by mail.sneakemail.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2012 22:10:10 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 22510-1350770999-468572 #2); 20 Oct 2012 22:10:10 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 22510-1350770999-468572 #1); 20 Oct 2012 22:10:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:07:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <22510-1350770999-468572@sneakemail.com> From: "John Hein" To: emulation@freebsd.org To: Josh Paetzel , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Open-vm-tools In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:16:53 -0000 Josh Paetzel wrote at 11:16 -0500 on Oct 20, 2012: > I just installed PC-BSD 9.1-RC2 and virtualbox 4.1.22. I then > installed a vm running FreeBSD 9.1-RC2. I installed the > open-vm-tools from pkg. > > The kernel modules wouldn't load at boot. Turns out the rc.d script > runs a binary called vmware-checkvm, which is supposed to return > true if it's run in a vm. It does not and so the rc.d script bails > out before loading the kernel modules. > > Running vmware-checkvm gives "unknown version" as output. > > I haven't tried other hypervisors, but it seems that on this > platform at least it doesn't work properly. vmware != virtualbox