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Install VMWare tools on PFSense
#!/bin/sh
# configure package download environment
export PACKAGEROOT="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org"
export PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.3-release/Latest/"
# install perl to run the installer script
pkg_add -r perl
# install compat6x-amd64 (or compat6x-i386 if you're on 32-bit)
pkg_add -r compat6x-amd64
# mount CDROM
mkdir /tmp2
mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /tmp2
#...then install VMWare tools as usual from tar.gz file
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oko commented Oct 15, 2013

Updated to use export instead of setenv in script -- setenv can be used on the command line, however

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