From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 14 15:34:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE72B2C3 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A55621531 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853DD20AA5 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:34:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:34:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=t1D85gY9gVoNWDGAXc49znzA864=; b=f95 +CXKvv5fNGKAE/WZQx9G90TeXpWWWNa6k5/u8CtFeZMcuiO45D1gKndquNcs9rwJ ZAk6lhoMSH5nJN4DqSyfevJLpag6VzMLPJNRcsCe3Gj1141Pd+lRy6qd/JvRepNt c9NP6LQ3egQgWpAWQ0dHCpukBIaQ5F1+m3zpL1lY= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 6500C11EC62; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:34:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1392392092.3444.83451713.6EEBCBB9@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 96W2buZlKKY+yF9cAEaO6eXn2nrOoSe9AbNGmHXvoxRx 1392392092 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-e72899be In-Reply-To: <5dcefb214b0503028606f53da194f4c1@dweimer.net> References: <0ac901cf2437$458837b0$d098a710$@FreeBSD.org> <773DBB2B-D421-44DB-848F-E4B7A9238085@gmail.com> <20140208203859.b6a9c4f555b7e8301541e676@mimar.rs> <1392385745.4914.83410473.135CDC76@webmail.messagingengine.com> <28B68434-113E-4ABA-931E-3DAB666A2BA5@longcount.org> <5dcefb214b0503028606f53da194f4c1@dweimer.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:34:52 -0600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:54 -0000 On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 9:13, dweimer wrote: > On 02/14/2014 8:43 am, Mark Saad wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014, at 13:38, Marko Cupa=C4=87 wrote: > >>> First of all, I wouldn't go with 10-RELEASE, as it is not officially > >>> supported. Go for 9.2-RELEASE amd64 or expect all kinds of problems. > >>=20 > >> "FreeBSD" is "not officially supported" by VMWare. Trust me. We threw > >> $60,000 at them and they still wouldn't acknowledge bugs. I couldn't > >> even find an engineer that knew what FreeBSD was! > >>=20 > >=20 > > So you need to remind the engineers at VMware their parent company EMC > > uses and sells things based on FreeBSD. Mainly Isilon and spectra > > logic as well as other things . > >=20 > >=20 > >> Plus you have to consider that we don't even know what version of ESXi > >> he's working with in the first place. According to their OS support > >> matrix, FreeBSD 9.2 is only "supported" on ESXi 5.5. > >>=20 > >> http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategor= y=3Dsoftware&partner=3D109&testConfigurations=3D16&page=3D1&display_interva= l=3D10&sortColumn=3DPartner&sortOrder=3DAsc&testConfig=3D16 > >> ______________________________________________ > >=20 > > If we , all of the VMware users who use FreeBSD on esxi , work out a > > good set I notes for using VMware esxi + FreeBSD and work up a good > > page on wiki.freebsd.org; we can make some of the users have a better > > experience and we can help EMC / VMware with support as a Side effect > > . > >=20 > > Anyone interested in helping ? > >=20 > > --/ > > Mark Saad > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > I would be interested, I have been running various version of FreeBSD on= =20 > various ESX and VMWare for some time. I have found few little gotchas,=20 > but for the most part it has been running great. Including FreeBSD 10,=20 > on the latest version of VMware Workstation, ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.1. I=20 > don't however use the VMware Tools install from within VMware, and=20 > instead use the emulators/open-vm-tools port. >=20 I will gladly offer any relevant notes I may have from our internal wiki if someone starts some documentation.