FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Mark Felder]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 9:13, dweimer wrote:
> On 02/14/2014 8:43 am, Mark Saad wrote:
> >> On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014, at 13:38, Marko Cupać wrote:
> >>> First of all, I wouldn't go with 10-RELEASE, as it is not officially
> >>> supported. Go for 9.2-RELEASE amd64 or expect all kinds of problems.
> >> 
> >> "FreeBSD" is "not officially supported" by VMWare. Trust me. We threw
> >> $60,000 at them and they still wouldn't acknowledge bugs. I couldn't
> >> even find an engineer that knew what FreeBSD was!
> >> 
> > 
> > So you need to remind the engineers at VMware their parent company EMC
> > uses and sells things based on FreeBSD. Mainly Isilon and spectra
> > logic as well as other things .
> > 
> > 
> >> Plus you have to consider that we don't even know what version of ESXi
> >> he's working with in the first place. According to their OS support
> >> matrix, FreeBSD 9.2 is only "supported" on ESXi 5.5.
> >> 
> >> http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software&partner=109&testConfigurations=16&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc&testConfig=16
> >> ______________________________________________
> > 
> > If we , all of the VMware users who use FreeBSD on esxi , work out a
> > good set I notes for using VMware esxi  + FreeBSD and work up a good
> > page on wiki.freebsd.org; we can make some of the users have a better
> > experience and we can help EMC / VMware with support as a Side effect
> > .
> > 
> > Anyone interested in helping ?
> > 
> > --/
> > Mark Saad
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> 
> I would be interested, I have been running various version of FreeBSD on 
> various ESX and VMWare for some time.  I have found few little gotchas, 
> but for the most part it has been running great.  Including FreeBSD 10, 
> on the latest version of VMware Workstation, ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.1.  I 
> don't however use the VMware Tools install from within VMware, and 
> instead use the emulators/open-vm-tools port.
> 

I will gladly offer any relevant notes I may have from our internal wiki
if someone starts some documentation.