vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:36 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric
> escribió:
> 
> > On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > >I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation
> > >7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to
> > >get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not
> > >supported. My other VM runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which
> > >works fine.
> > >
> > >Any idea how to solve this? Should I go back to X.org 7.4_1 in
> > >9-CURRENT? Or should I fake the vmware-tools installer to see
> > >X.org as /.4 while it is 7.6.5?
> > 
> > X.org 7.5 already has VMware drivers, so you can just install the
> > x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware
> > ports.
> > 
> > Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, check
> > the "VMMOUSE" and "VMWARE" entries, and rebuild this meta-port.
> 
> Dimitry, 
> 
> Thanks for your kind  & fast answer; does this also mean that I could
> completely get rid of the VMware' vmware-tools-freebsd? I'm using on
> the 8-CURRENT system the emulators/open-vom-tools and will install
> them in the 9-CURRENT too.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> 	matthias
> 
I am not Dmirty, but I will answer anyway. If you install open-vm-tools
and xf86-input-vmmouse and xf86-video-vmware drivers, you won't need to
bother fighting with vmware tools anymore. The open-vm-tools port
installs vmware-user-suid-wrapper binary without SUID bit, you will
need to fix that. Also, vmblock driver currently crashes
FreeBSD-current kernel, so you will need to remove or
rename /boot/modules/vmblock.ko
and /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/drivers/vmblock.ko so that
vmware-user-suid-wrapper does not load it for you automatically.


-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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