FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[dteske at FreeBSD.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alban Hertroys [mailto:haramrae at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 4:18 AM
> To: freebsd-stable
> Subject: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?
> 
> 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
> (VMwareR 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).
> 
[Devin Teske] 

Try setting the "http_proxy" environment variable...

env http_proxy=myuser:mypass at myproxy pkg install -y perl

-- 
Devin

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