I’ve never bothered installing vmware tools on my freebsd systems, but as it’s Christmas and we’re doing various pieces of maintenance I thought, “why not?”
In order to do this I first needed to install the compat6x port:
cd /usr/ports/misc/compat6x/ && make install clean
I then mounted the freebsd.iso from the vmimages folder, mounted the cdrom into existing folder (/cdrom) and copied the folder to the temporary directory before extracting and installing:
mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom
cp /cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz /tmp
tar -xf /tmp/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz
./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
Upon completion the installer then runs the first time required config to set up the installation.