#Vmware tools download freebsd how to#

Enable ssh in pfSense by following the instructions from the pfSense docs. Check if the pfSense VM has a CD-ROM drive configured in its virtual hardware. Here are the necessary steps to i nstall VMware Tools for the first time on a newly installed pfSense box (They require that pfSense itself is already configured at least to such an extent that it can access the Internet):ġ. So I decided to write my own quick check list for this task and to share it of course.

#Vmware tools download freebsd how to#

There are already several blog posts available on how to do this, but I found each of them to be either incomplete, missing important caveats or hard to follow. After a long beta phase it has recently reached Release Candidate (RC) status, and this inspired me to update my appliances, although I didn't have any problems with the beta build that I was using before.Īfter updating I had the challenge to get the VMware Tools up and running again. I use the current development branch pfSense 2.1, because it supports IPv6. I blogged before about pfSense, the Open Source FreeBSD-based router and firewall appliance that I use in my hosted virtual lab ( SBHVL) to implement IPv6-capable routing and firewalling and connecting two hosts through an OpenVPN tunnel. Update : If you are using pfSense 2.3 (or newer) then please do not follow this guide, or it will break your system! Use the pfSense Package Manager to install the open-vm-tools package instead!

The following instructions are still valid for pfSense 2.0 and 2.1.

Update : If you are using pfSense 2.2 then please refer to this newer post: pfSense 2.2 was released - How to install VMware Tools (sort of).