Installing VMware Tools In A FreeBSD 7.0 Gues…

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http://blog.sourcehosting.net/2008/03/10/vmware-tools-installation-problem-under-freebsd-70/
March 10, 2008
Installing VMware Tools In A FreeBSD 7.0 Guest
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freebsd
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vmware
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Greg Larkin @ 7:35 pm
Hi everyone,
I’ve got
FreeBSD 7.0
downloaded and running as a VMware Server virtual machine so I can start checking it out and get a feel for how it works. Once
ZFS
is deemed stable for production, I’ll plan to migrate to the 7.x series.
The first thing I generally do after setting up a new VM is install
VMware Tools
. Wait - scratch that. The first thing I have to do before installing VMware Tools is install Perl, since it’s not part of the FreeBSD base system. That’s easy enough:
cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 && make WITH_GDBM=yes install clean
Ok, on to the VMware Tools installer! After starting the vmware-install.pl script, I answered a bunch of questions (used all default responses), and finally was met with this somewhat odd message:

Wait a minute - I’m pretty sure I’m installing in a virtual machine here! Initially, I pored through the installation Perl script and discovered that it executes vmware-checkvm to determine if it’s running inside a VM or not. Ok, let’s try that by hand:

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