Comments on: Installing VMWare Tools on FreeBSD 9

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By: Ceyhun

Ceyhun — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:47:08 +0000

Great article. I've just installed VMware tools in FreeBSD 9.1. I recorded the session. You can watch it on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0zYA56MrY

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VMware Tools on FreeBSD 9 | hosthealth.net — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:16:22 +0000

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By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:16:35 +0000

Hi!

FreeBSD 9.1 on ESXi 5.0 (build 623860)

# cd vmmemctl-only
# make
"/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk", line 478: MK_CLANG_IS_CC can't be set by a user.

What is this?
Thanks.

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By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:48:53 +0000

I had a similar problem. Here is what I did. Once you have the "modified" vmware-tools-distrib folder on the 'clean' machine go back and:

cd vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmblock-only; make install
cd ../vmmemctl-only; make install

Then try vmware-install.pl - worked for me on FreeBSD 9.1 with Workstation 8.0.5 build-893925

By: David

David — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:37:51 +0000

Hi!

I'm installing Tools in a FreeBSD 9.1 x64 running on a vSphere 4.1 system, I've also tried this on a 5.0 with same result and it was the same in a 9.0 aswell.

I have no problem to get it to work when I install in the same machine as I downloaded the SVN and source files on but if I move the tools package to a machine without it I get the usual errors for memory and vmblock.

What do I miss here? Am I not able to install in a machine without the source installed?

As a side note I might add that we who have huge active directory domains can't use vCenter 5.1 yet since SSO fails while enumerating accounts. For small ADs it's no problem though, keep at it.

BR,

/David

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:16:28 +0000

Rhyous,
excellent instructions. you saved me on my upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1-release. I figured everything would be fine since it was a minor version upgrade but after last run of freebsd-update install my pc got caught in a core dump reboot loop with a kernel trap 12 page fault pointing to the vm blocking file system. using you vmware recompile instructions from SUM fixed everything. One note though - make wouldn't run on 9.1 with MK_CLANG_IS_CC=no in make.conf so removed the line and all modules compiled without problem.

Thanks again for your excellent instructions.

By: HW

HW — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:40:30 +0000

Hello, Great instructions, as usual... of all the instructions I have ever looked at, yours are the best -- always detailed and accurate. I'm trying to install VMware Tools on FreeBSD 9.1, but I always get a file not found/access denied message when I try to add the compat6x package remotely (pkg_add -r compat6x-amd64). I've looked in the FTP site, but can't find it... my understanding of using the -r (remote) flag is that I shouldn't have to supply a version number, so I'm not sure what is happening or why. You also don't specify using the xf86-input-vmmouse VMware mouse driver in any of your posts. Don't you need it for things like drag and drop, and copy and paste? I've seen you mention that you have auto-sizing working, but I've never been able to make that work, even using the xf86-video-vmware driver. Do you have any clues? And I've only been able to make drag and drop, and copy and paste work on the root account, not a regular user account. Is there any difference between installing as root instead of as "su," in terms of permissions propagating to user accounts? Is using "su" instead of "root" a possible reason why? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. I'm pretty new to FreeBSD, but I've learned a lot from reading your posts.