Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:47:13 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Open-vm-tools Message-ID: <CAE-m3X1neyjW%2BvXU0pZ16L9PJE3ekVjg0B5MNMVFrMO0biHXWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BC6D702F-1D7B-4155-88EA-0044EE92C225@tcbug.org> References: <BC6D702F-1D7B-4155-88EA-0044EE92C225@tcbug.org>
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> 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/
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