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 5.1 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
whn I run ./vmware-install.pl I get a message "command not found". permissions are fine
ReplyDeletevmware-install.pl requires you to have perl (lang/perl5.14) installed and the tools will require compat6x-amd (misc/compat6x) to be installed also.
ReplyDeleteGreat article. I've just installed VMware tools in FreeBSD 9.1. I recorded the session. You can watch it on youtube
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0zYA56MrY