vmware and freebsd 8

[kalin m]

for the record - if anybody's interested...

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/249774;jsessionid=79E1617AEC857E6B51C29539AD294AC9?tstart=0


kalin m wrote:
>
>
> so installed the open-vmware-tools-nox11 package...  the vsphere ( the 
> client interface) detects it but it says VMWare Tools: Unmanaged. any 
> idea what that means?
>
> i did try to install from source off the sourceforge site without x 
> and some other stuff but it's broken.....
>
> thanks...
>
>
>
> kalin m wrote:
>>
>> awesome...  thanks to all replies...  i'll try the nox11 also..  
>> those machines are only intended as servers so guis are not 
>> necessary...   thanks...
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin Wilcox wrote:
>>> On 28 July 2010 09:12, Steve Polyack <korvus at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> We've always used the open-vm-tools port
>>>> (/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11).  There is both an x11 and
>>>> "nox11" version, both of which work very well.  It also includes a 
>>>> handful
>>>> of other drivers and modules, including the memory balloon driver.
>>>>
>>>> If you only intend on using the vmware-guestd, vmxnet, and/or vmmemctl
>>>> (memory ballon driver), then you can build with "-DWITHOUT_DNET
>>>> -DWITHOUT_ICU -DWITHOUT_FUSE" to eliminate a few more dependencies.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Steve - that's excellent advice. I'll try out open-vm-tools-nox11 on
>>> one of my VMs this afternoon and see how it goes. Thanks!!
>>>
>>> kmw
>>>
>>>   
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