Re: vmware and freebsd 8
I haven't used vmware so I can't say if it's better but it didn't take me long to get freebsd up and running with virtualbox. Just follow the instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox You do have to install /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/ on the guest. I got FreeBSD 8.1 and PC-BSD 8.1 both up and running on it. I'm having some sound issues but other than that it works great, in fullscreen mode you can't even tell it's running as a guest on a host machine. On 7/27/2010 9:47 PM, kalin m wrote: hi all... messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know much on how to install vmware tools on a bsd guest. 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? also is there anything better than vmware for virtualization that plays nice and with fbsd? 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 ___ 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 and freebsd 8
On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know much on how to install vmware tools on a bsd guest. We use paid-for ESX, not ESXi, but that shouldn't make a difference. FreeBSD 8 and ESX play great together, at least in my circumstances. Setups are pretty generic - minimal installs + ports with different VMs for subversion, apache, postgresql, OSSEC, netflow collectors, snort and even a few virtual FreeBSD firewalls. Overall I couldn't be more pleased. 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). also is there anything better than vmware for virtualization that plays nice and with fbsd? The rumour is that FreeBSD does great as Xen domU but then you have to have a Linux or Windows dom0 (perhaps Mac OS X would work, too?). I'm doing a CentOS install right now, specifically to try FreeBSD under Xen. As someone else mentioned, VirtualBox and FreeBSD get along great though I'm not entirely sure *I* would use it for a production environment. I ran VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows XP and Windows 7 Ultimate guests and my issues were minimal. It's the only virtualisation software installed on this workstation. kmw -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? ___ 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 and freebsd 8
On 07/28/10 09:05, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin mka...@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 ___ 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 and freebsd 8
On 28 July 2010 09:12, Steve Polyack kor...@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 -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? ___ 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 and freebsd 8
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 kor...@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 ___ 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 and freebsd 8
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 kor...@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 ___ 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 ___ 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 and freebsd 8
for the record - if anybody's interested... http://communities.vmware.com/thread/249774;jsessionid=79E1617AEC857E6B51C29539AD294AC9?tstart=0 kalin m wrote: 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 kor...@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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
vmware and freebsd 8
hi all... messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know much on how to install vmware tools on a bsd guest. 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? also is there anything better than vmware for virtualization that plays nice and with fbsd? 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
