This will also avoid keyboard-mapping problems that you might have at the console (Note: By default ssh will only be enabled on the internal LAN interface, so its not a big security risk). This is not really necessary for VMware Tools, but will let you easily use cut-and-paste into a putty terminal window for the following shell commands. 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): 1.Ĭheck if the pfSense VM has a CD-ROM drive configured in its virtual hardware.Įnable ssh in pfSense by following the instructions from the pfSense docs. So I decided to write my own quick check list for this task and to share it of course. 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. Pfsense 2.0.3 Update My AppliancesĪfter a long beta phase it has recently reached Release Candidate (RC) status, and this inspired me to update my appliances, although I didnt 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. 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 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. The following instructions are still valid for pfSense 2.0 and 2.1. Thoughts Reply Delete Replies Andreas Peetz Augat 8:44 PM Just one thought: Can you please check if a file named etcvmware-toolsnotconfigured exists on your system even after you have gone through all the steps If yes then delete it and try again.

We believe that an open-source security model offers disruptive pricing along with the agility required to quickly address emerging threats. If the web is down and I have to wait a while, but NTP eventually gives up. I didnt attach the wire to the WAN interface throughout the installation.

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