Open VM Tools or Vmware Tools?

astro.alireza

Hi friends,
I'm a new user of pfsense. I want to use it in a VMware. I saw that there are 2 different kind of vmware tools for pfsense:
1- Open VM Tools package that we can install it easily from system > packages
2- Official version of VMware tools for FreeBSD
I installed Official version of VMware tools for FreeBSD successfully with help of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-pfsense-freebsd
after that I check my installation with these commands:

$ ps ax|grep vmware
27064  ??  S      0:00.93 /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/sbin/vmtoolsd
60246  ??  S      0:00.00 sh -c ps ax|grep vmware
60659  ??  S      0:00.00 grep vmware


$ kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1    8 0xffffffff80100000 1303ad0  kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff81404000 4c98     vmxnet.ko
 3    1 0xffffffff81409000 9b50     vmxnet3.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff81622000 1484     vmmemctl.ko

but there is a little difference in result when I compare it when we install Open VM Tools:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Open_VM_Tools_package#Verifying_functionality

Can you please tell me which one of those packages are recommended for installing on pfsense?

Thanks

rodymcamp

I am also interested in this. I have not tried to use vmware tools just the open tools mostly because I seem to get just fine performance that way, but if I were to get better performance using vmware tools then I would switch.

heper

i guess it depends if you want to use the vmxnet drivers or not.
if you only want to be able to have your guest shutdown nicely by *tools then the open-vm-tools work fine