Open vm tools installation verification

[kevindd992002]

I've just installed open vm tools from the package library in pfsense and saw this info: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Open_VM_Tools_package . This is the output I get for the two commands, respectively.

$ ps uxawww | grep vmware
root  29476  0.0  0.5  17136  2640  -  S    2:15AM 0:00.00 sh -c ps uxawww | grep vmware 2>&1
root  29573  0.0  0.1    544  456  -  R    2:15AM 0:00.00 grep vmware
root  68626  0.0  1.7 101052  8184  -  S    2:08AM 0:00.22 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/pbi/open-vm-tools-amd64/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p /usr/pbi/open-vm-tools-amd64/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size    Name
1    1 0xffffffff80200000 22d84b0  kernel

Clearly, I don't get the same output to that of the one in the article. What does this mean?

[AMizil]

Check in vSphere client if the vmtools reports the IP addresses of pfSense. If you can see the IP addresses, they are installed. I received the same output ..

Check out my print screen from a linux host on ESXi 5.5 ( not pfsense)

Adrian


[kevindd992002]

It says "Running (Guest managed)" and it does show the IP address. Does that mean that everything is running just fine?

[johnpoz]

Article is OLD and needs to be updated..