Installing VMware tools on Freebsd 10

Installing VMware tools on Freebsd 10

• When installing OS, add kernel src
• Once installed, start the tools installer
  Player, Manage, Install VMware tools
• Mount the tools cd in the OS

   # mount -t cd9660 -o -e /dev/cd0 /cdrom

  Assumes /dev/cd0 is your cdrom and that /cdrom exits

• Copy install from cd to local file system

   # cp /cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /tmp

• Eject cdrom

   # umount /cdrom

  then Click Player, Manage, Cancel VMware tools installation

• Install required packages

   # pkg install compat6x-i386
   # pkg install perl5
   # pkg install xf86-input-vmmouse

• Create link to perl (so vmware tools can find it)

   # ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl

• Extract vmware tools installer ad start installer

# cd /tmp
 # tar zxvf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
 # cd vmware-tools-distrib
 # ./vmware-install.pl

I just press enter to accept all the defaults, you may want to read all the options and change some if required.