Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:20:13 -0400 From: kalin m <kalin@el.net> To: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> Cc: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and freebsd 8 Message-ID: <4C5058BD.3080301@el.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=upnE3xCZyuUuDC2RMOLALPisueg19ZrMJ70Or@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> <AANLkTi=arfaN8rYd4=sh4i7m84WUTSGTFMjxVUoRwrqE@mail.gmail.com> <4C502CB6.1030007@comcast.net> <AANLkTi=upnE3xCZyuUuDC2RMOLALPisueg19ZrMJ70Or@mail.gmail.com>
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awesome... thanks to all replies... i'll try the nox11 also.. those machines are only intended as servers so guis are not necessary... thanks... Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 28 July 2010 09:12, Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> 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 - that's excellent advice. I'll try out open-vm-tools-nox11 on > one of my VMs this afternoon and see how it goes. Thanks!! > > kmw > >
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