VMware GSX Server 2.5.2

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1. Power on the virtual machine.

2. Prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools.

   Choose Settings > VMware Tools Install.

   The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine.

3. As root, open a terminal, mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, copy its contents to /tmp, then unmount it.

   Note: You do not use an actual CD-ROM to install VMware Tools, nor do you need to download the CD-ROM image or burn a physical CD-ROM of this image file. The GSX Server software contains an ISO image that looks like a CD-ROM to your guest operating system. This image contains all the files needed to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system.

   Note: Some FreeBSD distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commands below. You still must copy the VMware Tools installer.

   mount /cdrom
   cp /cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /tmp
   umount /cdrom

4. Untar the VMware Tools tar file in /tmp, and install it.

   cd /tmp
   tar zxf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
   cd vmware-freebsd-tools
   ./install.pl

5. Start X and your graphical environment if they are not started yet.

6. In an X terminal, launch the VMware Tools background application.

   vmware-toolbox &

You may run VMware Tools as root or as a normal user. To shrink virtual disks, you should run VMware Tools as root (su -).

Note: In a FreeBSD 4.5 guest operating system, sometimes VMware Tools does not start after you install VMware Tools, reboot the guest operating system or start VMware Tools on the command line in the guest. An error message appears:

Shared object `libc.so.3' not found.

The required library was not installed. This does not happen with full installations of FreeBSD 4.5, but does occur for minimal installations. To fix the problem of the missing library, complete the following steps:

1. Insert and mount the FreeBSD 4.5 installation CD or access the ISO image file.

2. Change directories and run the install script.

   cd /cdrom/compat3x
   ./install.sh