Open VM Tools Support
July 7, 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/