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How To Install VMware Tools On pfsense (FreeBSD) This tutorial shows how to install VMware Tools onto pfsense v1.2.3 which is operated by the FreeBSD OS. It took me days to figure out how to do it, especially with lack of a complete guide in the Internet.

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By: Anonymous
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you are the man!!! solved my problem!!! i cant find this in pfsense.org....

By: Scott Ullrich
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Click System -> Packages -> Open VM Tools -> Plus sign next to package.

 

By: Angus
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Yes, except the open-vm-tools do not work in pfSense 2.0...

Plus, this allows us to use the real VM Tools from VMWare.

 

AJ

By: Peter
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Thanks a lot! It did the job in ESX 4.1 Update 1..!!

By: Anonymous
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when trying to run the perl script ./vmware-install.pl I get the following error:

 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcrypt.so.5" not found, required by "perl

By: Anonymous
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For the version 2.0 RELEASE the PACKAGESITE must be : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/

 

 

By: Anonymous
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For those using the x64 version of pfSense 2:

setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/Latest/"

Thanks for the great post btw, it helped a lot.

By: Anonymous
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 Great, run OK!!! Need some adjusts:
Firewall arch : PfSense AMD64

Change:
setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.4-release/Latest/"
To
setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/Latest/"


Change:
pkg_add -v -r compat6x-i386
To
pkg_add -v -r compat6x-amd64
 

Tahnks!!!! 

 

By: Steve
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Instead of trying to figure out the link used to get the packages, I just run the following command:
 

 cp /etc/skel/dot.tcshrc ~/.tcshrc

 .... and then log off and back on again.

This then allows me to run pkg_add -r ..etc 

 

 

By: Andrei
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OR:

Log in to the pfSense webGUI and click System > Packages.

From the Available Packages tab list, look for the Open-VM-Tools package and click  on the right to install the package. Confirm the the package installation and then it will proceed.

There is really nothing to configure with this package, it should just work.

By: Michael
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When I try to follow these steps I get an error message that the pkg_add command is not found.  How do I install the pkg_add command without being able to install packages?

I am installing on pfSense 2.4.5 release p1.