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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware
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It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:)

Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and 
who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected?

I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work.

Iv