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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
>
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.
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
> 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.
>
>
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 fi
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[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
p
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> 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 tool
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.
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From: Terry Sposato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March
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
di
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> 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:
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 wo
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> 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
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>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Is there any future development work being undertake
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