FreeBSD VMware Tools Installation

Start the installation process in VMware. Once the CD-ROM is mounted, open a terminal on the guest OS and run:

mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom

If your CD-ROM device is not /dev/cd0, you can probably find it by grepping dmesg:

dmesg| grep -i cd

Untar the VMware Tools tar file.

cd /tmp
tar -xzf /mnt/cdrom/vmware*

Run it

cd vmware-tools*
./vmware-install.pl

Remember to unmount the CD once you're done

umount /mnt/cdrom