From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 22:59:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FCC0AB7 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x232.google.com (mail-ob0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29F2F130A for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wn1so1832284obc.9 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:59:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=/qVpADf5pWg7+jUvdRUIT93yqGBQg2aYBD57XedBxc0=; b=sBccFFiTz3SeCjXTN9Al+odD1G0lUcgAfFmFJqw7AyXq0hhgWxpCuXOzixtvEsKHJf N1YxBIbWufz9V9QQrTbEY0n+ClKrlD9euHIVNY0z/SAQfFOCwMTtSNn6P6GHCNpoLSBR 5nnHdlelD7XdfoDyNYc2rJXd3FU6fkTbn5UnbUwioeBGNiSE1cOQPaBt/qdGGFR2jj81 2yIgV3Ns7ZJyWeDZ2RFokqa2F6/FvAz9NYGBSbUhH5UW9IJJhP7lVVjR4HVf4Wt6egRp LZMq0jFKPWfYIwlehdjloHpB7t/IBCj3wnss8lll8snH3egoMzB7bD0vikz648Pz5l2W wI+w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.155.72 with SMTP id vu8mr4142983oeb.60.1398293991452; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.144.137 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:59:51 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: VMTools successfully installed on FBSD 10 - can't drag and drop to or from VM From: "edflecko ." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:59:52 -0000 I've finally figured out how to install the VMTools on a FBSD 10 VM, but oddly enough - I can't drag and drop (which is my primary reason for installing them)! Here's how I installed so maybe someone can see what might be wrong? - cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16 make config-recursive make all clean install pkg install xorg pkg install xfce Xorg -configure echo 'hald_enable=3D"YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf echo 'dbus_enable=3D"YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf echo =E2=80=9C/usr/local/bin/startxfce4=E2=80=9D >> /root/.xinitrc echo =E2=80=9C/usr/local/bin/startxfce4=E2=80=9D >> /home/user/.xinitrc reboot Next, in virtual machine client, Go to guest -> install vmware tools. This will mount the tools CDROM in the virtual machine. pkg install compat6x-amd64 mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom cp /mnt/cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /tmp cd /tmp tar -xzvf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz wget http://ogris.de/vmware/vmware-tools-distrib.diff wget http://ogris.de/vmware/vmblock-only.diff wget http://ogris.de/vmware/vmmemctl-only.diff cd vmware-tools-distrib patch -p1 < /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.diff cd lib/modules/source/ tar xf vmblock.tar tar xf vmmemctl.tar cd vmblock-only patch -p1 < /tmp/vmblock-only.diff make && make install cd ../vmmemctl-only patch -p1 < /tmp/vmmemctl-only.diff make && make install cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/ ./vmware-install.pl Accept all defaults and finally - echo 'ifconfig_vxn0=3D=E2=80=9DDHCP=E2=80=9D' >> /etc/rc.conf pkg install xf86-video-vmware pkg install xf86-input-vmmouse Everything seems to install without error and yet I still can't drag and drop from or to the XFCE desktop! Suggestions? Thank you, Ed