Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:26:27 -0400 From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com> To: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and freebsd 8 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=upnE3xCZyuUuDC2RMOLALPisueg19ZrMJ70Or@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C502CB6.1030007@comcast.net> References: <4C4FB661.5040903@el.net> <AANLkTi=arfaN8rYd4=sh4i7m84WUTSGTFMjxVUoRwrqE@mail.gmail.com> <4C502CB6.1030007@comcast.net>
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On 28 July 2010 09:12, Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> wrote: > We've always used the open-vm-tools port > (/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11). =C2=A0There is both an x11 an= d > "nox11" version, both of which work very well. =C2=A0It also includes a h= andful > of other drivers and modules, including the memory balloon driver. > > If you only intend on using the vmware-guestd, vmxnet, and/or vmmemctl > (memory ballon driver), then you can build with "-DWITHOUT_DNET > -DWITHOUT_ICU -DWITHOUT_FUSE" to eliminate a few more dependencies. Steve - that's excellent advice. I'll try out open-vm-tools-nox11 on one of my VMs this afternoon and see how it goes. Thanks!! kmw --=20 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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