Would be great if you are able to include the full package, but especially the vmxnet/vmxnet3 drivers. This makes it possible to create 10Gbit connections between the different VM's. Some usefull info below:
Problem
As of May 2012, VMware Tools that come with ESXi 5 don't work on FreeBSD 9. I found this article in which Jared Barneck reports that he just had to recompile vmmemctl and vmblock. The source code for both of these modules (and vmxnet/vmxnet3 as well) is included in vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz. However, you can compile neither vmxnet nor vmxnet3 without some minor modifications.
Make sure that you have at least the kernel source tree in /usr/src/sys.
Solution
Download vmxnet.diff and vmxnet3.diff
In the vSphere Client, select your FreeBSD virtual machine and (right-)click Guest->Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
In your FreeBSD machine, run mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt and tar xzf /mnt/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
Untar vmblock.tar, vmmemctl.tar, vmxnet.tar, and vmxnet3.tar
Now apply my patches:
cd vmxnet-only
patch -p1 < /tmp/vmxnet.diff
cd ../vmxnet3-only
patch -p0 < /tmp/vmxnet3.diff
Change into vmblock-only and run make && make install
Change into vmmemctl-only and run make && make install
Change into vmxnet-only and run make && make install
Change into vmxnet3-only and run make && make install
Switch back to the top-level directory (vmware-tools-distrib) and run vmware-install.pl as usual
Update /etc/rc.conf, e.g. change ifconfig_em0 to ifconfig_vmx3f0 (sic!) in case of vmxnet 3
Source: http://ogris.de/vmware/
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Adding VMware ESXi drivers
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Jan
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Re: Adding VMware ESXi drivers
Yes Please.
Working VMware Drivers would be great.
Are there a way to install VM-Ware Drivers?
Or may be a Preconfigurated Image with Drivers?
Working VMware Drivers would be great.
Are there a way to install VM-Ware Drivers?
Or may be a Preconfigurated Image with Drivers?
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d0hboy
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Re: Adding VMware ESXi drivers
Open question -- has anybody tried using open-vm-tools on their NAS4free instance, or is that the same issue as the standard guest-tools that come with ESXi VMware 5.1?
I didn't try that patch-specified above.
I noticed that the sourceforge 9.1.0.1 revision 356 changelog (back in Oct) mentioned vmxnet3 kernel module.
update 2012-12-15 22:00 PST: tried the blackstudio link and it appears to do the trick, at least for the base functionality that I'm looking for (the ability for ESXi to send shutdown/startup commands to NAS4free so it doesn't just power-off AC each time I reboot the box).
I didn't try that patch-specified above.
I noticed that the sourceforge 9.1.0.1 revision 356 changelog (back in Oct) mentioned vmxnet3 kernel module.
update 2012-12-15 22:00 PST: tried the blackstudio link and it appears to do the trick, at least for the base functionality that I'm looking for (the ability for ESXi to send shutdown/startup commands to NAS4free so it doesn't just power-off AC each time I reboot the box).