Installing vmware tools on guest running FreeBSD 9

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mike860

Hello community,

I have installed a copy of FreeBSD 9 on vmware workstation 8 and would like to enjoy the optimization of vmware tools. The Tools install, but for some reason I get an error message once services try to start. Here is a Screen cap.

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Has anyone had any luck installing vmwaretools with FreeBSD 9? I am just playing with FreeBSD (non production), so should I install 8? Is 8 more compatible with vmwaretools?

Thanks to all who reply...

Mike :-)
 
Did you compile kernel with CLANG, perhaps? I have them installed in FreeBSD 9.0 (AMD64), however they stopped working when I rebuilt kernel/world with CLANG (so I rolled back to my snapshot :)).
 
Thanks throAU for the reply. I am really new to FreeBSD. Can you tell me how I would go about compiling the kernel without CLANG?

Mike
 
Few weeks I faced the same problem after upgrading one of my FreeBSD servers running in virtual machine under VMware vSphere Hypervisor (from 8.2 to 9.0).

I do not remember the precise steps but I found the source code for vmmemctl.ko and vmblock.ko in the installation pack for VMWare Tools and them recompiled them under FreeBSD 9.0. This fixed the problem.
 
That did the trick! Only problem I seem to be having now is during boot, I get a message telling vmcore.1 crashed. Might be easier to just install on a second pc.
 
Be sure to use the 425873,1 version of the emulators/open-vm-tools(-nox11) port. And you definitely have to rebuild them after upgrading.
 
@rhyous Thanks for the howto but it doesn't work for me. I'm using FreeBSB amd64 9.0 GENERIC kernel on VMware Workstation 8.0.3 build-703057 with VMware Tools 8.8.2 build-590212. Modules are built OK, but when I launch $SRCDIR/vmware-install.pl I'm stuck with the same error as if I did nothing.

I was using open-vm-tools-nox11-425873 from ports as an alternate solution.
 
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