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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:23:09 +0100
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        "Gelsema, P \(Patrick\) - FreeBSD" <freebsd@superhero.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FW: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <47DF43AD.2020100@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <49903.203.127.42.92.1205811904.squirrel@www.superhero.nl>
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Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD wrote:
> On Tue, March 18, 2008 11:40, Peter Boosten wrote:
>>
>> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> Just to confirm. This one runs on RELENG_7_0?

<quote>
Kernel modules for FreeBSD, including an experimental port of HGFS to 
FreeBSD.
</quote>

> It allows dymanic memory management by the VM Ware host?
 >
 > It also allows the VMWare host to gracefully shutdown the Freebsd guest?
 >

<quote>
The following components have been released as OSS:

     * Drivers for devices and filesystems access
     * Memory ballooning
     * Shared folders
     * Drag and Drop, Text and File Copy/Paste
     * Clipboard sharing
     * Disk wiping and shrinking
     * Time synchronization
     * Automatic guest screen resolution resizing
     * GuestInfo (provides statistics about guest environment)
     * Guest SDK (provides information about the VM)
     * Soft power operations
     * Multiple monitor support
     * GTK Toolbox UI
</quote>

Peter

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