From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 7 14:06:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12EFF51C for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D74EB10ED for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WBm4K-000O4j-9Z; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:06:12 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s17E6993068491; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 07:06:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+axqsOLJfX8a4FlInFNhJ7 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? From: Ian Lepore To: Alban Hertroys In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:06:09 -0700 Message-ID: <1391781969.1196.53.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by damnhippie.dyndns.org id s17E6993068491 Cc: freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:06:14 -0000 On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 13:17 +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a > VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of > stuck installing ports or packages... >=20 > The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare > (VMware=AE Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Perl > script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10. >=20 > We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to > get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading > distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible. >=20 > I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but > apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder, > which brings me back to the Perl problem. >=20 > It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to > get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to > obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy > first. >=20 > How do I solve this conundrum? >=20 > If only I had a writable CD or an USB stick here, I could use that to > transfer the files between the systems, but unfortunately I don't have > any at hand (after the weekend perhaps, if I remember to bring them). >=20 Can't you download the required distfiles onto another system, then copy them onto the new vm using scp? If not scp for some reason, then my fallback has always been netcat, which is especially handy for getting ssh keys onto new system that only has, for example, a serial console. on newsystem: nc -l 1200 >keys.tgz on sending system: nc newsystem 1200