From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 21 07:47:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC13B6C for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E89D8FC08 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 16so1412233wgi.31 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:47:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bluelife.at; s=google; h=mime-version:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=kQZyKIDzDz1Gg1U4WUsT2u5WT/9qaT9Yn6fM22qkknw=; b=fm7yyTPYVaUy5uEJkpQSaqVibSNIRz7nQKFu1Q+yGgPX8pqd9rTHNg602DKdWSZmVP v/zvuHnTMJkvQQSdnEYf2+oKslH3gzeGFWr8fUj3llSU0SALQfjNkfJbrZ3tX/Ct40T+ wlhnZW92cRyu/6FZ5XwyeY42ICVRU/tAkJOMI= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=kQZyKIDzDz1Gg1U4WUsT2u5WT/9qaT9Yn6fM22qkknw=; b=C54UH7qw6LcEmTk/F7ZI0aVlEAgOgYVOVj8rHuQWlmAEHjurmR+CqVsJzG4A3O5rZQ MmnoG/W/tXI6YoismiNK8MYfBgsQdSkZTQHafbwvGhBAChM6xhyle1D+EwWL6Kdrr31+ QsG/FX/KcTaBcKCAq3RbOWwDgD/3JWk66FkmfB5/zA5Tkdbig7YDDaf+ZaLLAU9IJiIV VF7uIYAhe1IIsvS4C9sgRa0wtnu4PGPcG78dzpbQHv09mjcc6OfX22cP5wNze2gMgAJR oC38CMTpJi5MDXQRAFjh1EZwTKdKhO/bpSPbCj0GcbmPJOnqxgzjyWKg5hmj97oyiub7 pUkw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.197.205 with SMTP id t55mr3624299wen.156.1350805633137; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: decke@bluelife.at Received: by 10.194.95.135 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:47:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [212.69.68.162] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:47:13 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dMrTCxUeHX4-1PLuLrF55MGDACA Message-ID: Subject: Re: Open-vm-tools From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= To: Josh Paetzel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm4qSx7m1IWSGMLvoH84uYzeXuDoNoP+OK5jw+MmZ1jvUyHyL1iWwu/5V/O/aEJ7EBNWpxi Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" 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: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:47:15 -0000 On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > 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. Open does not mean that it supports anything other than vmware. So you really want to give emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions a try. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/