Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:18:53 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Message-ID: <20080306121853.GA1314@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <fqm7s6$o7j$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20080217180601.M82827@firstbhph.com> <200803041150.21032.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <47CD8550.2000507@verysmall.org> <200803041243.36474.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <fqm7s6$o7j$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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: if your host is an ESX server, you need vmmemctl and the vmware-guestd for the livemigration of your virtual machine from one ESX host to another. A while ago, VMware decided to release vmware-tools as open source, maybe someone wants to take a look at it: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ > VMWare tools on Linux seem to include a driver that does something with > memory management, but it's not available for FreeBSD. You don't need It is available, it's included in VMware server and also in open-vm-tools (see link above). bye, Uwe
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