General Questions

Hi Guys,

I have been using Monowall for years, after initially using Smoothwall I found monowall to be so much better.

One issue I have always had is that we use many monowall VMs within VMware ESXi, and I find it really annoying not having the VMware tools installed within the VMs.

I can't do a graceful shutdown directly from the vSphere client, and the vSphere client doesn't show the hostnames, IP addresses, etc.

Is there a way of being able to install the VMware tools into monowall? Or is there an OVA (VMware template) somewhere with the VMware tools pre-baked into Monowall.

Thanks heaps

Radek

I do not know anyone who has done it, but open vm tools and vmware toolk both have freebsd clients...

But there is no console to give the commands to install it, is there?

No.  You would need to build a custom image with it installed.

a pre-built appliance exists, although it's an old release AFAIK ->

http://www.pqr.com/images/PQR/Downloads/VirtualAppliances/x-mono-1.235.zip
http://virtualappliances.eu
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/x-m0n0wall-v1-235

regards,
michael