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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:27:50 +0200
From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
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Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD
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Am Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:53:19 -0400
schrieb Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>:

> 
> 
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
> wrote:

> > AFAIK, there are no VMware-tools for FreeBSD9 (yet).
> > So, if you need to use ESXi/vSphere, then stay with 8.3 for the time
> > being.
> 
> You can use the open-vmtools package which is in ports .

They come (or came, last time I looked) with a lot of
run-time dependencies and even more at build-time.
And AFAIK, they don't offer the full functionality either.