From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 21:18:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3076616A473 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:18:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D4D13C45B for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:18:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.3.245] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m1ILIqm4001350; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:18:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:18:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802181618.52525.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Olivier Robert Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3 as guest: vmware-config.pl problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:18:53 -0000 On Monday 18 February 2008 03:07:48 pm Olivier Robert wrote: > I try to install FreeBSD 6.3 64 bits in a Fedora VMware Workstation > 6.0..2. I have done the install by choosing ALL + no extra packages > (but bash). > > Xorg is 1.4.0 > I can have a working X with vesa drivers. > > When running ./vmware-config-tools.pl, I get the following: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine: > Guest operating system daemon: > done Guest memory manager: > done > > > Detected X.org version 0.0.0. > > > No drivers for X.org version: 0.0.0. > > It replaced the vesa driver in xorg.conf as it should do, but X > wouldn't start anymore because the vmware module does not exist. > I was expecting to see some compilation going on here to build the > necessary stuff, but as it doesn't detect Xorg, it doesn't build the > appropriate module (I guess) > > Anyone encountered this problem? > Any help greatly appreciated. The script is too old to know what to do with a modular X.org so the version detection breaks. Fortunately, X.org ships with the vmware (video) and vmmouse (input) drivers these days. If they are not installed in your VM then you can install them by hand from ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware and ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse respectively. Alternatively you can do something like "cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers-xorg-drivers && make config", select the vm drivers from the list, and then upgrade the xorg-drivers port ("portupgrade -f xorg-drivers" if you use portupgrade). You can install and use these drivers without ever installing the VMware tools, although the guestd and memctl components of the tools are useful. JN