VMware tools for FreeBSD
Hi, I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) guest. I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools: - the linux one are working, but I woul prefere a more native FreeBSD - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guest6d ? It fails with not finding vmware-guestd. - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools6 ? It seems it needs vmware-guest6d as a prerequisite. What else? All documentation I find on the web refers to a VMwareTools for FreeBSD, that I could not locate. Help please. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VMware tools for FreeBSD
If this is a production server operation VMWare will *only* support you running their list of supported FreeBSD versions and their official VMWare Tools. This means you'll often be left behind several releases with the most recent available being completely abandoned by the FreeBSD project. It's a sad situation that they call this supported. If you really don't have any concerns about that what you want is emulators/open-vm-tools or emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VMware tools for FreeBSD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/8/13 7:09 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) guest. I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools: - the linux one are working, but I woul prefere a more native FreeBSD - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guest6d ? It fails with not finding vmware-guestd. - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-tools6 ? It seems it needs vmware-guest6d as a prerequisite. What else? All documentation I find on the web refers to a VMwareTools for FreeBSD, that I could not locate. Help please. Olivier Hi Olivier, If you want to install the official VMware guest tools for FreeBSD, check pages 25-26 in this document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-tools-installation-configuration.pdf If you have any further questions, please reply here and we'll go from there. Best of luck, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGKPtoACgkQ0sRouByUApAhsQCfTH77ZqtdqEpqBNc9brUyUwW8 j/0An3Ho9UW8u+Yp2pTEqnwUzjkiejS1 =r8zT -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installing VMware Tools on FreeBSD 9, amd64
I've installed the compat6x libraries and made a symlink to /lib for libc.so.6 as per some docs I found; however, the vmware tools installation is still failing with: Unable to copy the source file /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/FreeBSD8.0-amd64/vmxnet.ko to the destination file /boot/modules/vmxnet.ko. The reason being is that /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/ only contains: FreeBSD6.0-amd64FreeBSD6.0-i386FreeBSD7.0-amd64 FreeBSD7.0-i386 Is this a bug in the vmware install script or have I missed something--or can I use a different option? Thing is, I'm on 9.0 RELEASE. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
David Robillard wrote: Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's either. Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think? Why not? I'm in the exact same position as you are with ESX FreeBSD. Hence I'd love to have VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with FreeBSD. Actually, I'd really like to see VMWare Server and Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. VMWare is great stuff, I use and support all of it, but as a company they have a bit of Fortune 500 tunnel vision. Their pricing is geared towards nickel and diming large enterprises and their software support is geared too much towards Windows. Hyper-V will cut deeply into their market and they might regret being too MS-centered. I already have potential customers asking Gee, what about Hyper-V. It's a lot cheaper than ESX and we don't really care about non-MS... Pricing ESX enterprise (with all the bells whistles, including vmotion, virtual center, HA, etc) at around US$500 per node and providing better support for FreeBSD and other alternative OSes would go a LONG way towards long-term competitiveness. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Jeff Dickens wrote: I just made a copy of /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/freebsd.iso from VMware Server v1.0.4 under a different name, and moved it to the ESX server. Then I mounted that ISO as a virtual cdrom on the freebsd guest, untarred the tools and ran the install script. It seems to work fine. A couple of provisos: I don't use X windows on any of my FreeBSD systems, and the vmxnet accelerated virtual network adapter does not work properly. I use the e1000 adapter instead. It wouldn't be a bad idea to comment out the 'vmxnet_load=YES' line from /boot/loader.conf, but it doesn't seem to cause problems just being loaded. Furthermore, I don't use any of the virtualcenter features like vmotion, etc. I use freebsd guests for small-footprint servers, for example a dhcp and dnscache server with 512MB disk and 32MB ram. SNIP Jeff, Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's either. Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think? Terry signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Basically the only reason I have for using VM Tools is for the ability of Vmotion and such with our ESX Server farm. It's really the only benefit that the VM tools will give me on FreeBSD as all my virtual machines which are running FreeBSD are servers and don't use any GUI's either. Currently there is nothing that doesn't run correctly under VMWare and I have not seen any lack of performance or anything compared to a physical machine. Maybe if enough of us push to have the VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with VMWare that they might actually get started. I might develop some sort of E-Petition for it, what you think? Why not? I'm in the exact same position as you are with ESX FreeBSD. Hence I'd love to have VMWare Tools developed and certified for use with FreeBSD. Actually, I'd really like to see VMWare Server and Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Tue, March 18, 2008 12:23, Peter Boosten wrote: Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0? quote Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to FreeBSD. /quote It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_STRING=\open-vm-tools\ 2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\[EMAIL PROTECTED] -DPACKAGE=\open-vm-tools\ -DVERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DNO_MULTIMON=1 -I. -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -DVMX86_TOOLS -I/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -MT hgfsmounter.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hgfsmounter.Tpo -c -o hgfsmounter.o hgfsmounter.c hgfsmounter.c: In function 'ParseOptions': hgfsmounter.c:607: error: 'MNT_NODEV' undeclared (first use in this function) hgfsmounter.c:607: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hgfsmounter.c:607: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Someone seen this before? Rgds, Patrick quote The following components have been released as OSS: * Drivers for devices and filesystems access * Memory ballooning * Shared folders * Drag and Drop, Text and File Copy/Paste * Clipboard sharing * Disk wiping and shrinking * Time synchronization * Automatic guest screen resolution resizing * GuestInfo (provides statistics about guest environment) * Guest SDK (provides information about the VM) * Soft power operations * Multiple monitor support * GTK Toolbox UI /quote Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 22:34:30 +0800 Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_STRING=\open-vm-tools\ 2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\[EMAIL PROTECTED] -DPACKAGE=\open-vm-tools\ -DVERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DNO_MULTIMON=1 -I. -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -DVMX86_TOOLS -I/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -MT hgfsmounter.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hgfsmounter.Tpo -c -o hgfsmounter.o hgfsmounter.c hgfsmounter.c: In function 'ParseOptions': hgfsmounter.c:607: error: 'MNT_NODEV' undeclared (first use in this function) hgfsmounter.c:607: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hgfsmounter.c:607: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Someone seen this before? Yes, I got it as well. I was going to create a port for it, but I have no idea how to solve the make problem. If there is a programmer reading this that wants to work with me to get the software to make on FreeBSD, I'll be happy to submit and maintain the port. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define MNT_NODEV 0 Then rebuild. SHould work fine now. I configured my build environment via the README with ./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib etc. -aps On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 22:34:30 +0800 Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_STRING=\open-vm-tools\ 2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\[EMAIL PROTECTED] -DPACKAGE=\open-vm-tools\ -DVERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DNO_MULTIMON=1 -I. -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -DVMX86_TOOLS -I/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -MT hgfsmounter.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hgfsmounter.Tpo -c -o hgfsmounter.o hgfsmounter.c hgfsmounter.c: In function 'ParseOptions': hgfsmounter.c:607: error: 'MNT_NODEV' undeclared (first use in this function) hgfsmounter.c:607: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hgfsmounter.c:607: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Someone seen this before? Yes, I got it as well. I was going to create a port for it, but I have no idea how to solve the make problem. If there is a programmer reading this that wants to work with me to get the software to make on FreeBSD, I'll be happy to submit and maintain the port. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:36:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define MNT_NODEV 0 Then rebuild. SHould work fine now. Thanks. I was contacted privately by someone else on the list and advised of the same thing. I chose to remove the lines mentioning MNT_NODEV from the hgfsmounter.c file. I wasn't aware you could simply define it as 0. Which is preferable? I configured my build environment via the README with ./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib etc. I'm compiling and making without problems now that the NODEV problem is cleared up, but I didn't define any LDFLAGS. Should I? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Tue, March 18, 2008 23:36, Alexander Sack wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define MNT_NODEV 0 Then rebuild. SHould work fine now. I configured my build environment via the README with ./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib etc. Done #./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib --without-x #make #make install That all goes ok But when I run #make modules I get an error wolverine# make modules make -C modules make -C freebsd/vmmemctl make -C freebsd/vmxnet cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c if_vxn.c if_vxn.c: In function 'vxn_attach': if_vxn.c:302: warning: passing argument 4 of 'bus_setup_intr' from incompatible pointer type if_vxn.c:302: warning: passing argument 5 of 'bus_setup_intr' from incompatible pointer type if_vxn.c:302: error: too few arguments to function 'bus_setup_intr' if_vxn.c:378: error: 'struct arpcom' has no member named '_ac_enaddr' if_vxn.c:385: error: 'struct arpcom' has no member named '_ac_enaddr' *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/modules/freebsd/vmxnet. *** Error code 1 Any ideas? -aps On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 22:34:30 +0800 Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error running an install on RELENG_7_0 I386. Making check in hgfsmounter gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\open-vm-tools\ -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_STRING=\open-vm-tools\ 2008.03.03-79993\ -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\[EMAIL PROTECTED] -DPACKAGE=\open-vm-tools\ -DVERSION=\2008.03.03-79993\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DNO_MULTIMON=1 -I. -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -DVMX86_TOOLS -I/tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -MT hgfsmounter.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hgfsmounter.Tpo -c -o hgfsmounter.o hgfsmounter.c hgfsmounter.c: In function 'ParseOptions': hgfsmounter.c:607: error: 'MNT_NODEV' undeclared (first use in this function) hgfsmounter.c:607: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hgfsmounter.c:607: error: for each function it appears in.) *** Error code 1 Someone seen this before? Yes, I got it as well. I was going to create a port for it, but I have no idea how to solve the make problem. If there is a programmer reading this that wants to work with me to get the software to make on FreeBSD, I'll be happy to submit and maintain the port. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Comments below: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Gelsema, P (Patrick) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 23:36, Alexander Sack wrote: I believe the issue is that MNT_NODEV which should be defined in /usr/include/sys/mount.h was deprecated and removed from FreeBSD: http://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-cvs/gnats/conf/79715 At line 42 in hgfsmounter.c, add # define MNT_NODEV 0 Then rebuild. SHould work fine now. I configured my build environment via the README with ./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib etc. Done #./configure LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib --without-x #make #make install That all goes ok But when I run #make modules I get an error wolverine# make modules make -C modules make -C freebsd/vmmemctl make -C freebsd/vmxnet cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c if_vxn.c if_vxn.c: In function 'vxn_attach': if_vxn.c:302: warning: passing argument 4 of 'bus_setup_intr' from incompatible pointer type if_vxn.c:302: warning: passing argument 5 of 'bus_setup_intr' from incompatible pointer type if_vxn.c:302: error: too few arguments to function 'bus_setup_intr' if_vxn.c:378: error: 'struct arpcom' has no member named '_ac_enaddr' if_vxn.c:385: error: 'struct arpcom' has no member named '_ac_enaddr' *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/open-vm-tools-2008.03.03-79993/modules/freebsd/vmxnet. *** Error code 1 Any ideas? bus_setup_intr() kernel API seems to have either changed or handled differently in 7.0. I believe you can add a NULL after the flags (INTR_MPSAFE) which tells BSD to use the standard interrupt handler instead of a top-level handler. _ac_enaddr is because arpcom as defined in net/if_arp.h no longer exists. Typically the protocol bits are stuffed in if_l2com (layer 2). I made the macro in net_compat.h #define VXN_SC2ENADDR(softc)(IF_LLADDR(VXN_SC2IFP(softc)) and then removed the from both references in if_vxn.c as this macro already returns a pointer to char. That got me past this problem. Btw, this isn't an official port since I didn't really rectify the net_compat.h stuff (I suppose you could make the 60 to 700055, etc.). I'm still getting some further issues with vnodeops and vfsops with some modules (I believe vops_lcok should be vops_lock1) but I don't know about the other problem. -aps -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
--On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 15:24:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bus_setup_intr() kernel API seems to have either changed or handled differently in 7.0. I believe you can add a NULL after the flags (INTR_MPSAFE) which tells BSD to use the standard interrupt handler instead of a top-level handler. _ac_enaddr is because arpcom as defined in net/if_arp.h no longer exists. Typically the protocol bits are stuffed in if_l2com (layer 2). I made the macro in net_compat.h # define VXN_SC2ENADDR(softc)(IF_LLADDR(VXN_SC2IFP(softc)) and then removed the from both references in if_vxn.c as this macro already returns a pointer to char. That got me past this problem. Btw, this isn't an official port since I didn't really rectify the net_compat.h stuff (I suppose you could make the 60 to 700055, etc.). I'm still getting some further issues with vnodeops and vfsops with some modules (I believe vops_lcok should be vops_lock1) but I don't know about the other problem. Well, you're way beyond my skill level now. I'll be happy to create a port for this, but someone with a much deeper knowledge of FreeBSD and C is going to have to resolve the problems with the modules. If someone is interested in doing that, I'll submit the patches to the developers *and* add them to the port so that it can be committed. (Other than the kernel modules, the software builds fine from what I can tell.) -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Paul: I'd have to look at this some more. I got much further in the porting when I hit another snag with the vmblock driver (the inline assembly needs to be __asm__ instead of asm or something needs to process it that way for it to work, I also hacked around a vfsops issue which I'm not 100% sure what should really be there) and then all of it needs to be devtested. I use VMWare Fusion and have installed the existing vmtools that come with the product along with installing the individual X11 vmware driver which works for me but I agree it would be nice to have full port to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I'm sorry for not giving you patch files its just I was doing this on and off as a exercise to learn a little bit more about it I believe at least now as you said, the userland stuff builds fine now. Thanks! -aps On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 15:24:53 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bus_setup_intr() kernel API seems to have either changed or handled differently in 7.0. I believe you can add a NULL after the flags (INTR_MPSAFE) which tells BSD to use the standard interrupt handler instead of a top-level handler. _ac_enaddr is because arpcom as defined in net/if_arp.h no longer exists. Typically the protocol bits are stuffed in if_l2com (layer 2). I made the macro in net_compat.h # define VXN_SC2ENADDR(softc)(IF_LLADDR(VXN_SC2IFP(softc)) and then removed the from both references in if_vxn.c as this macro already returns a pointer to char. That got me past this problem. Btw, this isn't an official port since I didn't really rectify the net_compat.h stuff (I suppose you could make the 60 to 700055, etc.). I'm still getting some further issues with vnodeops and vfsops with some modules (I believe vops_lcok should be vops_lock1) but I don't know about the other problem. Well, you're way beyond my skill level now. I'll be happy to create a port for this, but someone with a much deeper knowledge of FreeBSD and C is going to have to resolve the problems with the modules. If someone is interested in doing that, I'll submit the patches to the developers *and* add them to the port so that it can be committed. (Other than the kernel modules, the software builds fine from what I can tell.) -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD SNIP Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. I figured that was what he was asking, but we should probably hear from him to make sure that this is really what he was asking. Unfortunately, the original post was either from someone who didn't use English as their native language, or they are paying for their Internet connection by-the-byte and were trying to make the question as short as possible, as a result, the entire meaning of the post was lost. Ted OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when you want to take advantage of the HA ability of ESX Server, as it only supports Virtual Machines with the VM Tools running. So what I am asking is if someone has ever though about porting the VMWare Tools to run in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine image. Terry, Jeff Dickens replied this morning - perhaps his mail crossed yours? The answer is yes, you can do it with the free vm tools from the free vmware product. If you have problems compiling these, please post. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Dickens Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:17 AM To: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server product for my esx-hoster freebsd servers. Did you have to do anything special to build and install them? Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:04 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD SNIP Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. I figured that was what he was asking, but we should probably hear from him to make sure that this is really what he was asking. Unfortunately, the original post was either from someone who didn't use English as their native language, or they are paying for their Internet connection by-the-byte and were trying to make the question as short as possible, as a result, the entire meaning of the post was lost. Ted OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when you want to take advantage of the HA ability of ESX Server, as it only supports Virtual Machines with the VM Tools running. So what I am asking is if someone has ever though about porting the VMWare Tools to run in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine image. Terry, Jeff Dickens replied this morning - perhaps his mail crossed yours? The answer is yes, you can do it with the free vm tools from the free vmware product. If you have problems compiling these, please post. Ted Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Terry signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
I just made a copy of /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/freebsd.iso from VMware Server v1.0.4 under a different name, and moved it to the ESX server. Then I mounted that ISO as a virtual cdrom on the freebsd guest, untarred the tools and ran the install script. It seems to work fine. A couple of provisos: I don't use X windows on any of my FreeBSD systems, and the vmxnet accelerated virtual network adapter does not work properly. I use the e1000 adapter instead. It wouldn't be a bad idea to comment out the 'vmxnet_load=YES' line from /boot/loader.conf, but it doesn't seem to cause problems just being loaded. Furthermore, I don't use any of the virtualcenter features like vmotion, etc. I use freebsd guests for small-footprint servers, for example a dhcp and dnscache server with 512MB disk and 32MB ram. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Dickens Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:17 AM To: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server product for my esx-hoster freebsd servers. Did you have to do anything special to build and install them? Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Although my name isn't Ted or Jeff I will post the link :-) This is from a discussion last week: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: Terry Sposato wrote: Ted / Jeff, Could you please let me know where to download these free vm tools. The only description at google I can find is that of the actual VMWare Tools by VMWare. If you point me to a download link that would be great! Although my name isn't Ted or Jeff I will post the link :-) This is from a discussion last week: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0? It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? thanks Patrick Gelsema Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote: On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0? quote Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to FreeBSD. /quote It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host? It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest? quote The following components have been released as OSS: * Drivers for devices and filesystems access * Memory ballooning * Shared folders * Drag and Drop, Text and File Copy/Paste * Clipboard sharing * Disk wiping and shrinking * Time synchronization * Automatic guest screen resolution resizing * GuestInfo (provides statistics about guest environment) * Guest SDK (provides information about the VM) * Soft power operations * Multiple monitor support * GTK Toolbox UI /quote Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been tackled and if it is being incorporated somewhere in the future? Regards, Terry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been tackled and if it is being incorporated somewhere in the future? Regards, Terry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Sposato Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been tackled and if it is being incorporated somewhere in the future? Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: Peter Boosten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:29 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Terry Sposato; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. I figured that was what he was asking, but we should probably hear from him to make sure that this is really what he was asking. Unfortunately, the original post was either from someone who didn't use English as their native language, or they are paying for their Internet connection by-the-byte and were trying to make the question as short as possible, as a result, the entire meaning of the post was lost. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:52:27PM +1100, Terry Sposato wrote: Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. I don't know if somebody is actually preparing an official port of http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ but I don't think it's too difficult to compile and run them on FreeBSD 7.0. I hope I'll find the time to test this soon but I wouldn't be able to roll a port without some help. :) As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. If you're using FreeBSD 6.x, you can use the vmware-tools that come with VMware server 1.04. I tested them with 6.2/amd64 and 6.3/amd64 and they work fine (vmmemctl.ko and vmware-guestd), including VMotion. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not No, it's not a licensing issue, since vmware-tools are released as open source now. I guess it's simply lack of interest and that there aren't many ESX users who are using FreeBSD as a platform. FreeBSD is not an enterprise system, you know... :-/ Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
I use the vmware tools for freebsd from the free vmware server product for my esx-hoster freebsd servers. The good people at vmware are apparently not interested in adding official freebsd support to esx. -Original Message- From: Terry Sposato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:23 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD Hi, Is there any future development work being undertaken in order to port vmware-tools to FreeBSD. As our organisation using VMWare ESX Server and a lot of our servers are being virtualised to save hardware costs, this would let our FreeBSD servers follow as well. It does work find under Linux so I am 50% confident that it would port to FreeBSD if the work was done. Is it a licensing issue or another reason? Not being a developer myself was just wondering if this has been tackled and if it is being incorporated somewhere in the future? Regards, Terry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
SNIP Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in? If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be using it on it's own bare metal product incarnation which I think uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other normal Linux tools). In that case I do not see why you would have a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX server. That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX. There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway. I figured that was what he was asking, but we should probably hear from him to make sure that this is really what he was asking. Unfortunately, the original post was either from someone who didn't use English as their native language, or they are paying for their Internet connection by-the-byte and were trying to make the question as short as possible, as a result, the entire meaning of the post was lost. Ted OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when you want to take advantage of the HA ability of ESX Server, as it only supports Virtual Machines with the VM Tools running. So what I am asking is if someone has ever though about porting the VMWare Tools to run in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine image. Terry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
--On March 17, 2008 10:03:54 AM +1100 Terry Sposato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, maybe I was not clear enough so I will try again. I want to run FreeBSD as a VM Guest on a VMWare ESX Server. Currently there is no problem with it and it works fine. The problems arise when you want to take advantage of the HA ability of ESX Server, as it only supports Virtual Machines with the VM Tools running. So what I am asking is if someone has ever though about porting the VMWare Tools to run in a FreeBSD Virtual Machine image. I downloaded the open-vm-tools from Sourceforge and tried to compile and make them. The compile went fine, but the make failed. I'm not a programmer, so I struggle trying to resolve such problems. I'd be happy to make a port for it, but I would need help from someone with more programming knowledge than I. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
