Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-06 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: - The only thing that VMWare tools are useful (on FreeBSD) is to get GUI features like clipboard sharing and automatic mouse focus grab in X.Org. You're right, normally you don't need vmware-tools for running FreeBSD as a guest, but:

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-06 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 8:44 am, Ivan Voras wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread James Seward
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Timer problems can be lessened (never solved, even with vmware tools) by reducing kern.hz to something like 50 or 100 Hz (in loader.conf), and installing ntpd. Installing the VMware Tools is a very good idea for timer

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Monday 03 March 2008 2:33 pm, Michael C. Cambria wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 9:51 am, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Monday 03 March 2008 2:33 pm, Michael C. Cambria wrote: Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work. Iv ___

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that everybody tries to hack around the problem...:) Does somebody know if this is a FreeBSD problem or a VMware problem and who should fix it, resp. when is a fix expected? I mean, in 6.x the VMware tools just work. Iv

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-03 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I've followed a couple of posts in other forums (or fora, if you prefer :-) ) that suggest using the e1000 NIC driver (e.g. communities.vmware.com/message/352504), but it fails. This is the last piece I need to make work. Suggestions? What's the problem you

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-29 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean

FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same issue with RC3 and with the 7.0 release. Is this VMware problem (resp. shall we expect them to fix it) or FreeBSD problem (resp. shall we wait for 7.x until it works). Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread Barry Byrne
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the same issue with RC3 and with the 7.0 release. Is this VMware problem (resp. shall we expect them to fix it) or FreeBSD problem (resp. shall we wait for 7.x until it works). I've had no

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean install reboot. I was thinking about the ports. How does the ports version compare to the official coming with the VMware?

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean install reboot. I was thinking about the ports. How does

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread John Nielsen
on the CD that gets inserted when you select the Install VMware Tools option in the host. JN -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re