Pfsense and Vmware tools

Jamerson

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

KOM

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

johnpoz

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