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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