FreeBSD on ESX4 VMware tools

Is that what someone has successfully installed vmware tools on a FreeBSD virtual machine under ESX 4?  I have a vSphere 4.0 test environment I am doing an upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0 on before this on my production servers and have problems vmware-tools on FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2 to be considered good working condition by vCenter.

Specifically, I installed the tools of the file vmware-freebsd - tool.tar on VMware-tools-freebsd-116369 iso, which is the package tools currently referenced, on FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2 facilities.  It's the same setup file that I used successfully on several FreeBSD installs under 3.5.

The Installer seems to install fine, and the demon starts normally.  But for these virtual machines, I have improved on 3.5 to 4.0 hosts, vCenter (4.0) reports "VMware Tools: not installed".

I also tried new construction FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2 virtual machines on the 4.0 hosts upgraded, and this, after installing the vmware tools, report "VMware Tools: obsolete.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I just spent a week working with VMware support on this same exact question, and we found a resolution that works.

Their official response, it's because of FreeBSD do not supported on older versions of ESX 4.0. The new freebsd.iso included with vSphere awaits a guest with version 7 of material. Because the machines were created before the upgrade to vSphere, the hardware version is 4. VMS also appear with a guest operating system type of "Other Linux", because FreeBSD is not possible before.

Their solution is to uninstall the existing tools of the VM and stop the FreeBSD Guest. Then right click on the computer and upgrade virtual hardware. Then you will be able to change the type of operating system asked the new option other > FreeBSD. Start the machine and mount the iso freebsd and install the tools. It should show OK now. I know that sounds a bit risky to force the upgrade of equipment without the tools are installed, but I did it on 4 machines so far and they run a lot.

Hope this helps you.

-Josh

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