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    • marcellocM
      marcelloc
      last edited by

      Install openvmtools from freebsd ports via pfsense console

      pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11
      

      It's a freebsd 10.1 x vmware issue, not related to pfsense itself.

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        neptunus
        last edited by

        @marcelloc:

        Install openvmtools from freebsd ports via pfsense console

        pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11
        

        It's a freebsd 10.1 x vmware issue, not related to pfsense itself.

        It looks like this way of installing is working! Thanks!

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          fbearoff
          last edited by

          @neptunus:

          @marcelloc:

          Install openvmtools from freebsd ports via pfsense console

          pkg install open-vm-tools-nox11
          

          It's a freebsd 10.1 x vmware issue, not related to pfsense itself.

          It looks like this way of installing is working! Thanks!

          No luck for me, package installs fine but does not load upon reboot after adding the following arguments to /etc/rc.conf as instructed by the package during installation

          vmware_guest_vmblock_enable="YES"
          vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable="YES"
          vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
          vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable="YES"
          vmware_guestd_enable="YES"

          Did you do anything else to get it working?

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          • marcellocM
            marcelloc
            last edited by

            What you get if you run vmtools rc.d script on console?

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              fbearoff
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              @marcelloc:

              What you get if you run vmtools rc.d script on console?

              If I manually start the 2 scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ (vmware-guestd and vmware-kmod) I get from kldstat

              Id Refs Address            Size    Name
              1  10 0xffffffff80200000 22c57e8  kernel
              2    1 0xffffffff82611000 2198    vmmemctl.ko
              3    1 0xffffffff82614000 23d8    vmxnet.ko
              4    1 0xffffffff82617000 2bf0    vmblock.ko
              5    1 0xffffffff8261a000 81b4    vmhgfs.ko

              and from ps uxawww | grep vmware

              root    9150  0.0  1.6  98804 33004  -  S    8:33PM  0:00.14 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc

              ESXi is also reporting that 3rd party VMware tools are installed and running. So how do we get this starting at boot?

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                biggsy
                last edited by

                fbearoff,

                When you have successfully started the tools manually, are you able to shutdown the pfSense VM from the viClient or do you get an error?

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                  fbearoff
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                  @biggsy:

                  fbearoff,

                  When you have successfully started the tools manually, are you able to shutdown the pfSense VM from the viClient or do you get an error?

                  I've been getting errors and the VM doesn't want to shutdown or restart when initiated from ESXi. I get this message from ESXi "vix error code = 1" and "VMware memory control driver initialized" at the pfsense console

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                  • marcellocM
                    marcelloc
                    last edited by

                    Rename or symlinks rc.d scripts to .sh and test  again.

                    IIRC,  pfsense calls only .sh scripts on boot.

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                      biggsy
                      last edited by

                      Thanks fbearoff, same error as I'm getting.  Maybe what vfrontde is seeing as well.

                      Thanks to you as well marcelloc - for the advice and all your hard work on packages.

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                        wiz561
                        last edited by

                        Will the pfsense package for open-vmtools be updated soon, or will this freebsd pkg install be the way to install it in the future?  I don't want to mess much with my install so if the package updates soon, I'm just going to let things be.

                        Thanks!

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                          fbearoff
                          last edited by

                          @wiz561:

                          Will the pfsense package for open-vmtools be updated soon, or will this freebsd pkg install be the way to install it in the future?  I don't want to mess much with my install so if the package updates soon, I'm just going to let things be.

                          Thanks!

                          Hoping for an official update as well, as of right now none of these suggestions have resulted in working vm-tools for me.

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                          • marcellocM
                            marcelloc
                            last edited by

                            This package I prefer to install via pkg ng.  Pbi is something that needs a lot of work to compile and Symlink to do not get missing libs.

                            I'll try a 2.2 Release on vmware 5.5 and see what happens.

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                              wiz561
                              last edited by

                              It's been a few days and was just wondering if anybody had any updates.

                              Also, it's a long shot, but can not installing the vmware tools cause goofiness with my WAN nic?  I'm 99% positive that the fault is with comcast.  Since the 2.2 upgrade and my packet loss and long icmp return times, I just thought I'd ask.

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                                fbearoff
                                last edited by

                                No luck with anything, doesn't look like it is a high priority for the devs, there hasn't been any code changes on the git repository for this package  :(

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