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VMware can refer to both the company or its product. VMware offers a variety of closed source hypervisors including VMware ESXi and VMware Server.

Installation[edit | edit source]

This article guides you on installing Gentoo as a guest OS in a VMware environment.

Install app-emulation/open-vm-tools

Kernel Settings[edit | edit source]

When working with VMware ESXi, despite the Ethernet emulator stating it would be an Intel e1000e, the guest OS was presented with an AMD Ethernet adapter. Both are included for completeness as well as the e1000.

KERNEL

[*] Networking support  --->
        Networking options  --->
            <*> Virtual Socket protocol
            <*>   VMware VMCI transport for Virtual Sockets 
    Device Drivers  --->
        [*] Fusion MPT device support  ---> 
                <*>   Fusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for SPI 
            Misc devices  --->
                <*> VMware Balloon Driver
                <*> VMware VMCI Driver
            SCSI device support  --->
                [*] SCSI low-level drivers  --->
                   <*>   VMware PVSCSI driver support
        [*] Network device support  --->
                [*]   Ethernet driver support  --->
                    [*]   AMD devices
                    <*>     AMD 8111 (new PCI LANCE) support
                    <*>     AMD PCnet32 PCI support
                    [*]   Intel devices
                    <*>     Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
                    <*>     Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support 
                <*>   VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver
            Input device support  --->
                [*]   Keyboards  --->
                    <*>   AT keyboard
    File systems  --->
        <*> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support

The keywords for the above options are:

CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AMD
CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH
CONFIG_PCNET32
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL
CONFIG_E1000
CONFIG_E1000E
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD
CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON
CONFIG_VMWARE_PVSCSI
CONFIG_VMXNET3
CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI
CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS
CONFIG_FUSE_FS
CONFIG_FUSION
CONFIG_FUSION_SPI

Finish setup[edit | edit source]

Start the service:

root #rc-service vmware-tools start

And, add the vmware-tools service to the default run level.

root #rc-update add vmware-tools

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