From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 21:03:25 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 479491065670 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:03:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [74.1.12.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FDD8FC24 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 75524 invoked by uid 1008); 28 Jul 2010 22:25:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kalins-macbook-pro.local) (kalin@el.net@74.1.12.115) by mail.el.net with ESMTPA; 28 Jul 2010 22:25:39 -0000 Message-ID: <4C509B1B.1040200@el.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:03:23 -0400 From: kalin m User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> <4C502CB6.1030007@comcast.net> <4C5058BD.3080301@el.net> In-Reply-To: <4C5058BD.3080301@el.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:03:25 -0000 so installed the open-vmware-tools-nox11 package... the vsphere ( the client interface) detects it but it says VMWare Tools: Unmanaged. any idea what that means? i did try to install from source off the sourceforge site without x and some other stuff but it's broken..... thanks... kalin m wrote: > > 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 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"