On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:36 +0200 Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote: > El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric > escribió: > > > On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation > > >7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to > > >get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not > > >supported. My other VM runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which > > >works fine. > > > > > >Any idea how to solve this? Should I go back to X.org 7.4_1 in > > >9-CURRENT? Or should I fake the vmware-tools installer to see > > >X.org as /.4 while it is 7.6.5? > > > > X.org 7.5 already has VMware drivers, so you can just install the > > x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware > > ports. > > > > Alternatively, run "make config" in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, check > > the "VMMOUSE" and "VMWARE" entries, and rebuild this meta-port. > > Dimitry, > > Thanks for your kind & fast answer; does this also mean that I could > completely get rid of the VMware' vmware-tools-freebsd? I'm using on > the 8-CURRENT system the emulators/open-vom-tools and will install > them in the 9-CURRENT too. > > Thanks again > > matthias > I am not Dmirty, but I will answer anyway. If you install open-vm-tools and xf86-input-vmmouse and xf86-video-vmware drivers, you won't need to bother fighting with vmware tools anymore. The open-vm-tools port installs vmware-user-suid-wrapper binary without SUID bit, you will need to fix that. Also, vmblock driver currently crashes FreeBSD-current kernel, so you will need to remove or rename /boot/modules/vmblock.ko and /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/drivers/vmblock.ko so that vmware-user-suid-wrapper does not load it for you automatically. -- Alexander Kabaev
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