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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:07:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "John Hein" <emul-jfbml@snkmail.com>
To:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, <emulation@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Open-vm-tools
Message-ID:  <22510-1350770999-468572@sneakemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BC6D702F-1D7B-4155-88EA-0044EE92C225@tcbug.org>
References:  <BC6D702F-1D7B-4155-88EA-0044EE92C225@tcbug.org>

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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




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