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Installation VMWare tools on FreeBSD 9.1
#!/bin/sh
# installation of compat libriaries
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x && make WITHOUT_X11=YES install clean
# mounting vmware-tools cdrom
mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/
cp /mnt/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /root/
cd /root/
# fetching src
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/src.txz
tar -C / -xvzf src.txz
tar -xzvpf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
cd /root/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
tar -xf vmblock.tar
cd vmblock-only && make && make install
cd /root/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
tar -xf vmmemctl.tar
cd vmmemctl-only && make && make install
cd /root/vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl
# cleaning
rm /root/src.txz
rm /root/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
rm -rf /root/vmware-tools-distrib
rm -rf /usr/src/*
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