Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:05:23 -0400 From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> To: kalin m <kalin@el.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and freebsd 8 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=arfaN8rYd4=sh4i7m84WUTSGTFMjxVUoRwrqE@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net>
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On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m <kalin@el.net> wrote: > messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... > > has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? > i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice > interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently doesn't know > much on how to install vmware tools on a bsd guest. We use paid-for ESX, not ESXi, but that shouldn't make a difference. FreeBSD 8 and ESX play great together, at least in my circumstances. Setups are pretty generic - minimal installs + ports with different VMs for subversion, apache, postgresql, OSSEC, netflow collectors, snort and even a few virtual FreeBSD firewalls. Overall I couldn't be more pleased. > so the question is which vmware tools should i get for the fbsd 8 guests to > go with the esxi 4.1. in the ports there are vmware-tools6, 5, 4, 3. tried > six. it wants some disk. there is also the open-vmware-tools. is that open > one better to play with the esxi 4.1 an the vmsphere thing? I install vmware-guestd6 from ports so I can eliminate all of the X libraries getting installed. ESXi should come with a freebsd.iso file that you can use for the tools install (I'm not one of our ESX administrators so I can't speak definitively but I did get an ISO from them for the tools installation). > also is there anything better than vmware for virtualization that plays nice > and with fbsd? The rumour is that FreeBSD does great as Xen domU but then you have to have a Linux or Windows dom0 (perhaps Mac OS X would work, too?). I'm doing a CentOS install right now, specifically to try FreeBSD under Xen. As someone else mentioned, VirtualBox and FreeBSD get along great though I'm not entirely sure *I* would use it for a production environment. I ran VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Windows XP and Windows 7 Ultimate guests and my issues were minimal. It's the only virtualisation software installed on this workstation. kmw -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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