Tip: Installing OpenBSD on VMware Server

Contributed by marco on 2006-09-10 from the dept.

Anonymous coward pointed out this article on Newforge on how to configure vmware tools on OpenBSD

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By Steve Shockley (68.80.137.106) on 2006-09-10 19:32

I originally saw this (more or less) at http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=441858. One thing not mentioned in either is that I needed to set machdep.apmhalt=1 in sysctl.conf.

I didn't bother with the host time sync part, I'd rather use ntp in OpenBSD.

On an ESX 2.5.3 host, the OpenBSD guests show up as "oldTools" in Virtual Center, but that's far better than having a constant alert from no tools.
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1. By Martin Schr�der (87.193.40.94) martin@oneiros.de on 2006-09-10 21:27 http://www.oneiros.de
  
  > I didn't bother with the host time sync part, I'd rather use ntp in OpenBSD.
  
  I gave up on ntp on my AMD64x2 system; the cool&quiet of the host will confuse VMware too much and the client can't cope. ntpdate run by cron was the only solution.
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  1. By Brad (72.60.177.181) brad dot comstyle dot com on 2006-09-15 19:13
    
    > > I didn't bother with the host time sync part, I'd rather use ntp in OpenBSD.
    >
    > I gave up on ntp on my AMD64x2 system; the cool&quiet of the host will confuse VMware too much and the client can't cope. ntpdate run by cron was the only solution.
    
    Are you using OpenBSD -current (4.0) as the client OS? If not, then try a -current snap with ntpd.
By Anonymous Coward (62.225.37.69) on 2006-09-11 13:45

a intresting code and doks are on:
VMware Command Line Tools
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html#top

best Anonymous

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