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    • J
      Jamerson last edited by

      hi Guys
      i managed to have Vmware tools installed on Pfsense and working fine with vmxnet3, however everytime the pfsense is rebooted doesn't start the tools automatically.
      everytime i need to run this command to start the tools

      /usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl -d –clobber-kernel-modules=vmxnet3,pvscsi,vmmemctl

      any suggestions how to make this automatically ?
      thank you

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      • KOM
        KOM last edited by

        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Executing_commands_at_boot_time

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        • johnpoz
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator last edited by

          I run tools on pfsense 2.1.5 i386 and never have any issues, are you running amd64, then there is a thread about comment out part of the vmware tools script that creates the not configured file.

          I have updated the docs for vmware tools that touches on this subject.

          https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VMware_Tools

          If you are having problems with tools not starting on reboot, you can edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-tools.sh Have not seen this on 32bit pfsense, but have seen reports on 64 after say 2nd reboot

          Comment out the whole section

          if [ "$exitcode" -gt 0 ]; then
              # Set the 'not configured' flag
              touch "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
              chmod 644 "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
              db_add_file "$vmware_db" "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
              "$vmware_etc_dir"'/not_configured'
              exit 1
              fi

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