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VMware
ESXi
ESXi is bare-metal hypervisor, which supports FreeBSD.
Problems
- CURRENT, official vmtools built from their ISO and memory ballooning could produce kernel panics, mostly noted when there's no load.
VMware Tools
VMware tools is an optional set of drivers and utilities that improves the interaction between the host and the guest, as well as improves performance.
Official VMware Tools
Open Virtual Machine Tools
- emulators/open-vm-tools
- emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11
This is 3rd-party tools, however, there's developer(s) from company itself. To send them patches they required to sign some contribution form.
OpenBSD vmt(4) VMware Tools driver
BSD licensed kernel level implementation of VMware Tools. With this driver several features work out of the box without the need for installing any packages/ports. vmt(4) is not available in FreeBSD at the moment, but a non-working FreeBSD driver is available here. It may be a good starting point for porting this driver over to FreeBSD.