FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Dennis Glatting]

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 09:13 -0600, 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.
> 

Sorry to jump in the middle of this thread but I too have been running
FreeBSD 9.x and 10.0 under ESXi 5.1 for some time. It is NOT problem
free, such as 'dump' can cause the system to lock, but it does work well
enough.