How to install the vmware video card driver on a FreeBSD 8 guest virtual machine?
Well, I have documentation on how to create a FreeBSD 8 Desktop environment here:
How to install and configure a FreeBSD 8 Desktop with Xorg and KDE?
However, if you install FreeBSD as a VMWare guest, you will want to install two additional pieces of software when you are finished:
1. You need to install the VMWare X11 driver (no, it will not be installed when you install the VMWare tools)
2. You need to install VMWare-tools
This guide is to walk you through resolving the first of these two issues. ...
Part 1 – Installing and Configuring the VMWare X11 Driver
Step 1 – Install the VMWare X11 driver
1. Change to the appropriate ports directory.
# cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
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