Hi all, This open-vm-tools isn't in 7.0 ports. Anyone know why?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, John Nielsen wrote: |On Wednesday 03 September 2008, B. Cook wrote: |> I am setting up FreeBSD 7.0 and he is asking about the vmware-tools. |> |> Ports has some things, but I am not sure what I need, and neither is he. |> |> Can anyone tell me what it needs? | |I usually create VM's with the Intel gigabit vNIC's which can use |FreeBSD's "em" driver. Since Xorg includes the vmmouse and vmware video |drivers already, the main things you should be looking for are the |memory "balloon" driver and the guestd service. In the past I have gotten |these to work by using the supplied tools (on the CD image that |is "inserted" when you select "Install VMware tools" from the host). |However it is much easier nowadays to use the free version in |ports/emulators/open-vm-tools (or open-vm-tools-nox11). | |JN |_______________________________________________ |freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list |http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions |To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | - Marcelo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"