From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 13:05:25 2010 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 0E9E81065679 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin.wilcox@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DD48FC1A for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywf9 with SMTP id 9so992085ywf.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:05:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=k1ef2nSlxSLbO40g60G+dO9x6rARc53Eb4MUx4Vg240=; b=aLQwziMps4U+R7EfstJ5gYyjkec0nQYJg6BNwHTn9hp38Mhwbz2fqosDXf7+lAkNFu xL/Mvf4a3a+KFR8KllAMPlCCvR/1xJRM06K19g2cHTRZVfdK4SdHsL0tx5mlSVDsmEOA oz+LNQqbBElp/ZxWkGtCKhOlJnU0Vo6q2e1EM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=cjJO6B/NhRu43C5dYg44uvbNb3/RGiQdh7TlpC3GcsajdfDp7izGJlpQaXiCDbGGdV UfwHWeqjRr8CKcyQYyLCVD01wltWevx2jcIdGpy4Pn8mb5vIgkPB+DVLx5rc+p+QHb0o wIF65O3mzgLvx5OrUiyredesAz+GR/5jRs2Rg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.34.8 with SMTP id h8mr7790198agh.30.1280322323700; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.94.18 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:05:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: Kevin Wilcox To: kalin m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and freebsd 8 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: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:25 -0000 On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m wrote: > messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... > > has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? > i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice > interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know > much on how to install vmware tools on a bsd guest. We use paid-for ESX, not ESXi, but that shouldn't make a difference. FreeBSD 8 and ESX play great together, at least in my circumstances. Setups are pretty generic - minimal installs + ports with different VMs for subversion, apache, postgresql, OSSEC, netflow collectors, snort and even a few virtual FreeBSD firewalls. Overall I couldn't be more pleased. > so the question is which vmware tools should i get for the fbsd 8 guests to > go with the esxi 4.1. in the ports there are vmware-tools6, 5, 4, 3. tried > six. it wants some disk. there is also the open-vmware-tools. is that open > one better to play with the esxi 4.1 an the vmsphere thing? I install vmware-guestd6 from ports so I can eliminate all of the X libraries getting installed. ESXi should come with a freebsd.iso file that you can use for the tools install (I'm not one of our ESX administrators so I can't speak definitively but I did get an ISO from them for the tools installation). > also is there anything better than vmware for virtualization that plays nice > and with fbsd? The rumour is that FreeBSD does great as Xen domU but then you have to have a Linux or Windows dom0 (perhaps Mac OS X would work, too?). I'm doing a CentOS install right now, specifically to try FreeBSD under Xen. As someone else mentioned, VirtualBox and FreeBSD get along great though I'm not entirely sure *I* would use it for a production environment. I ran VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows XP and Windows 7 Ultimate guests and my issues were minimal. It's the only virtualisation software installed on this workstation. kmw -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?