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Open VM Tools Support

July 17, 2025

AhsayUBS includes support for Open VM Tools on FreeBSD.

To check if Open VM Tools is installed and running on AhsayUBS, login to the AhsayUBS server using a ssh client and use the kldstat or ps command.

# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name 
 Id Refs Address            Size     Name 
 1   49 0xffffffff80200000 10d1490  kernel 
 2    1 0xffffffff812d2000 8cf0     vesa.ko 
 3    1 0xffffffff8139c000 17378    ahci.ko 
 4    1 0xffffffff813b4000 f108     mvs.ko 
 5    1 0xffffffff8c3c4000 7b68     geom_concat.ko 
 6    1 0xffffffff8c3cc000 8f60     geom_stripe.ko 
 7    1 0xffffffff8c3d5000 25ae8    geom_mirror.ko 
 8    1 0xffffffff8c3fb000 25c38    geom_raid5.ko 
 9    1 0xffffffff8c611000 221398   zfs.ko 
10    1 0xffffffff8c833000 7500     opensolaris.ko 
11    1 0xffffffff8c83b000 11150    krpc.ko 
12    1 0xffffffff8c84d000 9afc     iscsi_initiator.ko 
13    1 0xffffffff8c857000 14bd     splash_bmp.ko 
14    1 0xffffffff8c859000 2798     vmmemctl.ko 
15    1 0xffffffff8c85c000 23e0     vmxnet.ko 
16    1 0xffffffff8c85f000 2cf8     vmblock.ko 
17    1 0xffffffff8c862000 2f20     procfs.ko
# ps -fU root | grep vmtoolsd 
 1186  -  S        1:09.43 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c 
/usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p /usr/local/lib/open-vm
tools/plugins/vmsvc 
29990  1  S+       0:00.00 grep vmtoolsd

The module is installed in /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/