ESXi 5.1 running FreeBSD 9.0 / 9.1 and VMware Tools

Note - I have another article for ESXi 5.0. These instructions won't work for a 5.0 box.

ESXi 5.1 includes support for the official VMware Tools on FreeBSD 9.0 (yay!).

I'm somewhere between 9.0 and 9.1 RC3, but I feel these instructions will work for either. 

I'll be testing the throughput of the vmxnet3 driver under FreeBSD shorty. For now, I can just confirm that bothe vmxnet2 and vmxnet3 drivers show in FreeBSD, and can ping.

Here's a quick script to install it for you.

You will need to start a VMware Tools install from the guest before running this.


echo "Make sure you have started the vmware tools install"
mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /media
cp /media/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz ~
cd ~
tar xvf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
echo # DONE. Remember that the vmxnet3 driver is called vmxnet3f0

ESXi 5.0 running FreeBSD 9.0 / 9.1 and VMware Tools

Note - I have another article for ESXi 5.1. If you are running 5.1, these instructions won't work for you.

Installing the proper VMware Tools for FreeBSD 9.0 / 9.1 can be a pain.

The hard work to figure this out has already been done by others (http://ogris.de/vmware/), so here is a quick script that will install the official VMware Tools using Dru's patch.

Make sure to start a vmtools install from your vsphere console so ESXi will make the CD available to you.

If you run into problems with a missing library when you try and execute /usr/local/bin/vmare-toolbox-cmd, try looking here (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-June/217718.html) it solved the problem for me. 

(Cut-n-Paste into a terminal window with root access)

echo "Make sure you have started the vmware tools install"
mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /media
cp /media/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz ~
cd ~
tar xvf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
cd lib/modules/source
tar xvf vmblock.tar
tar xvf vmmemctl.tar
tar xvf vmxnet.tar
tar xvf vmxnet3.tar

fetch http://ogris.de/vmware/vmxnet.diff
fetch http://ogris.de/vmware/vmxnet3.diff

echo #
echo # If it's thinking you have a previously applied patch (-R) say yes.
echo #

patch -p1 < vmxnet.diff
patch -p0 < vmxnet3.diff


cd vmblock-only
make && make install
cd ..

cd vmmemctl-only
make && make install
cd ..

cd vmxnet-only
make && make install
cd ..

cd vmxnet3-only
make && make install
cd ..

cd ~/vmware-tools-distrib


./vmware-install.pl

echo # DONE. Remember that the vmxnet3 driver is called vmxnet3f0

Blogger Code Syntax Highlighting

I really like Wordpress.org's Syntax Highlighter.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/screenshots/

Particularly the button to copy the raw code without the line numbers.

Unfortunately, this is not easy to implement on Blogger.

The closest I have managed is from this blog:

http://www.cyberack.com/2007/07/adding-syntax-highlighter-to-blogger.html

Which does work, but we're missing the important buttons. Here's a demo of it in action on my saturate.c code - Note Blogger still completely mangles my code after a few lines, and we're missing the important buttons that Wordpress has.

Time to switch to Wordpress, or does anyone have any bright ideas?

(Update - Pastebin seems to work well for me, but it's an external link, not quite the same thing.  http://pastebin.com/4SexdvLq )

Saturate.c



#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64  /* enable large file support  */
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

float nCM=0; /* count of 100's of megs we've written */


void finish(const char *where) {
        printf("%s: wrote %.1f gig file\n",where,0.1*nCM);
        exit(0);
}

void hitError(const char *where) { perror(where); finish(where); }

void writer(int id)
{
        char c=0; /* The byte we're writing */
        int cm=100*1024*1024;
        FILE *f[50];

        int     r;
        int     block[262114];
        int     i;
        char    fName[40];
        int     numFiles=4;

        printf("This is the %i writer, going to create %i files.\nOpened : ", id, numFiles);

        for(i=0; i
(end Code)