I've installed FreeBSD 11.0 as a guest in Fusion, but I am unable to install VMWare Tools. The first attempt ended with a message to re-run the program after installing the compat6x-amd64 package.
Installing the compat6x-amd64 package resulted in a message to add COMPAT_FREEBSD6 to my kernel config and a link to instructions on configuring and rebuilding the FreeBSD kernel. It also noted that the package was no longer maintained and was likely to have problems.
I did not want to rebuild my kernel for a package that might be broken, so I simply tried installing VMWare Tools again. This time it failed when the guest memory manager service failed when starting the VMWare Tools Services.
Do I really need to reconfigure and rebuild my kernel to install VMWare Tools? Does the unsupported compat6x-amd64 package work for FreeBSD 11.0? Is there another way to get VMWare Tools installed?
I should add that I suspect FreeBSD 11 is too recent to be supported, but I've found the compatibility guide (VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search) to be absolutely incomprehensible for determining what guest OSes are supported. It looks like some older versions of FreeBSD _might_ be supported, but I just can't tell.
Thanks for any help with this.