Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:12:22 -0400 From: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> To: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> Cc: kalin m <kalin@el.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and freebsd 8 Message-ID: <4C502CB6.1030007@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=arfaN8rYd4=sh4i7m84WUTSGTFMjxVUoRwrqE@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> <AANLkTi=arfaN8rYd4=sh4i7m84WUTSGTFMjxVUoRwrqE@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/28/10 09:05, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m<kalin@el.net> wrote: > > >> 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). > > We've always used the open-vm-tools port (/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11). There is both an x11 and "nox11" version, both of which work very well. It also includes a handful of other drivers and modules, including the memory balloon driver. If you only intend on using the vmware-guestd, vmxnet, and/or vmmemctl (memory ballon driver), then you can build with "-DWITHOUT_DNET -DWITHOUT_ICU -DWITHOUT_FUSE" to eliminate a few more dependencies. Steve
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