VmWare Tools Installation

[Harley55]

I'm running GhostBSD 23.10.1. Can someone give me detailed instructions on how to install VMWare tools on this software.

[chadbsd]

Install VMware tools.
sudo pkg install open-vm-tools

Add this line to /etc/rc.conf.
vmware_guestd_enable="YES"

Restart your virtual machine.

[Harley55]

I did the install like it says but I still can't get a full screen. Is there something else I need to do?

[ericbsd]

The configuration we had for GhostBSD is this:

/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/vmware.conf

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Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
EndSection'

/etc/rc.conf.d/vmware.conf

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vmware_guest_vmblock_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable="YES"
vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable="YES"
vmware_guestd_enable="YES"

[j77h]

Hi @ericbsd

I'm using plain FreeBSD + XFCE in VMWare,
and your post above is the best info I've found
for completing configuration of FreeBSD as a guest OS.

With those settings I got mouse integration.
It's great to know that it can actually work !
But at the same time, there was no keyboard input.

So I commented out the section that has
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
and then the keyboard worked,
but there was no mouse integration.

I guess GhostBSD sets up the keyboard somewhere else.
Maybe I need to add an "InputDevice" Section for the keyboard,
but I don't know what details to put in it.

Is there a proper documenation page anywhere, for open-vm-tools config?
I have not found sufficient info, on vmware.com, freebsd.org,
or github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools