VM Tools Problems

tmx

Hi all

I've imported the OVF Version of 2.0.2-RELEASE (amd64) and installed the package "Open-VM-Tools-8.8.1" on e ESXi5.1 The VM Hardware Version is 9 (vmx-9)

Now i have some strange Output on the Console:

VMware memory control driver initialized
link_elf_obj: symbol HgfsDebugPrintVattr undefined
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type

Any suggestions for an solution? May the 8.8.1 Tools doesn't Support ESXi5.1 vmx-9 ?

Thanks

jimp

Sounds like you somehow have mixed up amd64 and i386 binaries on there.

bwong3351

Forget about the open-vm-tool in the packages, I never able to get it to works period. You will be better off to install the vmware tools instead.

Log onto the shell
setenv PACKAGEROOT "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org"
setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ <i386 or="" amd64="">/packages-8-stable/Latest/"
pkg_add -v -r perl
pkg_add -v -r compat6x- <i386 or="" amd64="">start "Install VMware Tools" onto the pfsense-VM
mount the cd using cmd: mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 / <some tmp="" directory="">copy off the cp vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz and tar -xvf it to another temp directory

** IMPORTANT Create the following link b4 install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/compat/libm.so.4 /lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.6 /lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/compat/libthr.so.2 /lib

cd to /vmware-tools-distrib and chmod +x vmware-install.pl bin/vmware-config-tools.pl bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
run vmware-install.pl
pick default for everything
shutdown -r now

After reboot please verify the tool daemon start correctly and the kernel loaded. For some unknown reason sometime the daemon wont auto start correctly. If so you can just start it by hand,</some></i386></i386>

biggsy

See my post here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,57851.0.html

The "HgfsDebugPrintVattr undefined" error doesn't appear to cause any problems but seems to have been fixed in later versions of OpenVMTools..