FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 13:17 +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a
> VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of
> stuck installing ports or packages...
> 
> The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare
> (VMware® Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Perl
> script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10.
> 
> We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to
> get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading
> distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible.
> 
> I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but
> apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder,
> which brings me back to the Perl problem.
> 
> It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to
> get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to
> obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy
> first.
> 
> How do I solve this conundrum?
> 
> If only I had a writable CD or an USB stick here, I could use that to
> transfer the files between the systems, but unfortunately I don't have
> any at hand (after the weekend perhaps, if I remember to bring them).
> 

Can't you download the required distfiles onto another system, then copy
them onto the new vm using scp?  If not scp for some reason, then my
fallback has always been netcat, which is especially handy for getting
ssh keys onto new system that only has, for example, a serial console.

on newsystem:

  nc -l 1200 >keys.tgz

on sending system:

  nc newsystem 1200 <keys.tgz

-- Ian