Awhile back we ran FreeBSD 10 (and 9 before that) using the vmware tools supplied by ESXi. Last year we upgraded the servers to FreeBSD 11. And we substituted vmware tools for open-vm-tools.
We keep getting these errors on boot:
vmware-guestd starts but no modules ever get loaded:
Last lines in /etc/rc.conf
uname -a
We keep getting these errors on boot:
Code:
vmx0: link state changed to UP
KLD vmmemctl.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
KLD vmxnet.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
KLD vmblock.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
KLD vmhgfs.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatcah
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
vmware-guestd starts but no modules ever get loaded:
Code:
# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 3 0xffffffff80200000 1fa7c38 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82219000 587b fdescfs.ko
Last lines in /etc/rc.conf
Code:
vmware_guest_vmblock_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable="YES"
vmware_guestd_enable="YES"
uname -a
Code:
FreeBSD servername.domainname 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24 06:55:27 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64