VMWare edition with em1000 interfaces released!
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Please give this a try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=VMWareESXandServerEdition
And if you are pushing it really hard, try out the custom vmware kernel. Do this from a shell (it will reboot afterwards):
fetch -o /boot/kernel/kernel "http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/vmware_kernel" && shutdown -r now