Hi,

Yesterday, I've installed open-vm-tools from FreeBSD ports and now I'm
trying to do something useful with vmblock filesystem.

For Linux there are good examples how to test vmblock from shell but
before one can do it, that filesystem needs to be mounted (``mount -t
vmblock none /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint'' -- everyone knows this). But
in FreeBSD we haven't /proc/fs. I've looked into
modules/freebsd/vmblock/* source files (in open-vm-tools tarball) and
discovered that for FreeBSD the actual temporal space for files is equal
to Linux location == /tmp/VMwareDnD; mount point is different and
intended to be /var/run/vmblock. OK, but commands like this doesn't
help:

# kldstat | grep vmblock
 7    1 0xc1ddc000 5000     vmblock.ko
# lsvfs  | grep vmblock
vmblock                              0 loopback

# ls -ld /tmp/VMwareDnD
drwxrwxrwt  3 root  wheel  512 Jan  9 18:04 /tmp/VMwareDnD
# mkdir /var/run/vmblock
# mount /tmp/VMwareDnD /var/run/vmblock
mount: /tmp/VMwareDnD : Block device required
Exit 1
# mount -t vmblock /tmp/VMwareDnD/vmblock
mount: /tmp/VMwareDnD : Invalid argument
Exit 1

So, can anybody give me an example how to properly mount vmblock fs in
FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance.

PS
Sorry for my terrible English.

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