Open VM Tools package

VMware Tools for pfSense

This package installs VMware Tools for pfSense, using the Open VM Tools available from VMware. It is built using the open-vm-tools-nox11 FreeBSD port.

Usage

Just install the package. There is no GUI for control, the services are automatically started at boot time.

Verifying functionality

There are two portions of this package, the vmware-guestd process and the kernel modules.

Verifying vmware-guestd

Go to Diagnostics -> Command, and in "Execute shell command", enter the following:

ps ax|grep vmware

You will see something like this:

$ ps ax|grep vmware
 1026  ??  Ss     0:20.84 /usr/local/sbin/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware_guestd.pid --halt-command /sbin/shutdown -p now
19157  ??  SN     0:00.00 sh -c ps ax|grep vmware
19159  ??  RN     0:00.00 grep vmware (sh)

As long as /usr/local/sbin/vmware-guestd is shown there, it is working.

Verifying the kernel modules

In the "Execute shell command" box, enter the following:

kldstat

The output will be similar to this:

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    8 0xc0400000 93ca60   kernel
 2    1 0xc0d3d000 6a32c    acpi.ko
 3    1 0xc20d1000 3000     vmmemctl.ko
 4    1 0xc20f5000 4000     vmxnet.ko
 5    1 0xc20f9000 5000     vmblock.ko
 6    1 0xc20fe000 a000     vmhgfs.ko

As long as you see vmmemctl.ko, vmxnet.ko, vmblock.ko and vmhgfs.ko, the kernel modules all loaded properly.