Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:48:24 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <FC0848D9649F28268A4ADE24@Macintosh.local> In-Reply-To: <47DDA75A.1000903@sucked-in.com> References: <005001c887b5$23231070$69693150$@com.au> <47DDA75A.1000903@sucked-in.com>
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--On March 17, 2008 10:03:54 AM +1100 Terry Sposato <terry@sucked-in.com> wrote: > > OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. > I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently > there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when > you want to take advantage of the HA ability of ESX Server, as it only > supports Virtual Machines with the VM Tools running. > > So what I am asking is if someone has ever though about porting the > VMWare Tools to run in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine image. > I downloaded the open-vm-tools from Sourceforge and tried to compile and make them. The compile went fine, but the make failed. I'm not a programmer, so I struggle trying to resolve such problems. I'd be happy to make a port for it, but I would need help from someone with more programming knowledge than I. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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