Getting VMWare Tools to work in FreeBSD 10

[ikevin8me]

I'm trying to install VMware Tools into FreeBSD 10 by following the instructions here:
http://www.rhyous.com/2012/05/09/instal ... hout-xorg/

However, I found that the clang compiler spewed out errors. Any workaround?

 

[SirDice]

Did you follow step 7.2?

Edit: scratch that. If you read some of the comments you'll see it won't work. I think the code needs to be fixed by VMWare.

 

[ikevin8me]

Yes, I did follow step 7.2. I've also installed gcc. It didn't work either.

 

[wblock@]

Do you need VMware specifically? emulators/virtualbox-ose works.

 

[throAU]

Confirming: you probably will need to wait for VMware to update the tools. FreeBSD 10 has only been out a few days, give them a chance. I'd try the open-vm-tools from ports, maybe you'll have more luck (possibly at the cost of a few features the official VMware tools give you).

 

[oz42]

open-vm-tools fails to compile because python27 fails to compile. Any other ideas?

 

[tribble]

open-vm-tools fails to compile because python27 fails to compile. Any other ideas?

Try the binary package?

i.e.: pkg install open-vm-tools

 

[tribble]

Kind of wondering, BTW, anyone on the FreeBSD development team have contact with VMWare, and know what sort of timeline can be expected for updated official VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 10? FreeBSD seems to be one of the more neglected OS's when it comes to VMWare Tools (still no native amd64 VMWare Tools for FreeBSD at all, for example).

 

[dburkland]

I was wondering the same thing as I too run a few FreeBSD 10 VMs on VMware vSphere 5. One annoyance that I noticed was that VMs when shutdown (using shutdown -h now) do not fully power off.

Dan

 

[wblock@]

-h just halts. To shut down and power off, use shutdown -p now.

 

[dburkland]

Doh, this is what I get for spending a majority of my time on RHEL systems