The open-vm-tools should work right away.
It's the preferred way:

"It is created from the same code base as VMware Tools shipped with Workstation 
7.1 and Fusion 3.1. We encourage distributions to use this version of software 
as basis of the packages included in their repositories and have users opt-in 
to install open-vm-tools instead of having the packages automatically 
installed. This avoids having users running an unsupported configuration on 
their VMware product when installing a new operating system." (from: 
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net)

There are slight differences such as communication channels between esx host 
and client (which in this case as a firewall might not be wanted...)

Regards,

martin

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Auftrag von Matthew Patton
Gesendet: Montag, 20. August 2012 22:52
An: pfSense support and discussion
Betreff: Re: [pfSense] PF Sense Appliance on VMWARE 5.0 ESX

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:44:56 -0400, Jim Pingle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure what is incomplete or not working there.

Sorry for any confusion. I forgot to add the '?' to my mention of "incomplete". 
I read somewhere that the opensource one didn't have certain tools and also 
significantly lagged the current binary release. Not to say that the opensource 
one doesn't work as is.

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