From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 14:24:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDD11065678 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:24:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FE48FC15 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:24:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so3850728rvb.43 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:24:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=m90d+eOdf3/VWsbx9TZET5fGX8KxL6vnzy+BCOcjS9A=; b=vP8FNk/SoL4dUx03oSOkugSkCGSfOeFEWneY9eW1vYV5ISFpQxEi3xNIuD2k2ibqNLkbWudArK9qw0nOU/pakqJwNaZ/ZGewI38g2DbrsuxOqm/WZKfsU5AZ63hvNPLCg4DZKOVtmmCqE3BFykhlD2a0ZeFUzFZwmI7UaYco5Fg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=efjx1f5mptjN1QsumL2Yz402t0xeoDwvFg+Mn00EC7MMLDuFUqekcrTlS+3kfLVpK/eMEEqhao0TjlvY37u06bZKjuYY6xM/qfoqHuWWIJzL12nN5nGPtc/nRbvwzYiYE3yZPHW/K6kwQtNP3azop5yF1XbE2K845+gnUD8n2I8= Received: by 10.140.147.13 with SMTP id u13mr781382rvd.228.1205848563702; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.186.16 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <226ae0c60803180656x5d7d359bkf306aa1092816075@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:56:03 -0400 From: "David Robillard" To: "Terry Sposato" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:24:50 -0000 > Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability > of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only > benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual > machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's > either. > > Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I > have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical > machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed > and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. > > I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think? Why not? I'm in the exact same position as you are with ESX & FreeBSD. Hence I'd love to have VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with FreeBSD. Actually, I'd really like to see VMWare Server and Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122