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Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: arne on February 19, 2008, 04:25:04 AM

Title: How to install and run Vmware tools ? (Solved)
Post by: arne on February 19, 2008, 04:25:04 AM

Vmware tools is an extra module to make the guest system running with some add on functions, like forinstance heart beat monitoring. I think it is not very importent to have Vmware tools installed while running in text mode, but still it would be interesting to see all functions running.

I first installed Vmware tools on a virtual Centos 5.1/32. I installed from source and this worked. I sat up the configuration to make it run automatically at boot-time via the command "ntsysv".

I then tried to install the Vmware rpm to a virtual SME 7.3. It installed without any error message (rpm -ivh pkg-name)  but I was not able to start up the Vmware-tools deamon.

Is there anybody in the forum that has tried to install and run Vmware-tools on SME 7.3 ?

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Found something here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32139.0

Starts:

[root@sme73guest ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-tools start
Starting VMware Tools services on the host:
   Switching to host config:                               [  OK  ]
[root@sme73guest ~]#

.. but it does still not work like it should ..

Title: Re: How to install and run Vmware tools ?
Post by: arne on February 19, 2008, 06:26:23 AM

Solved due to help from the existing post in this forum.

Did edit and reedit the file modprobe.conf file.
Did also have to remove and reinstall virtual network adapter.

Title: Re: How to install and run Vmware tools ?
Post by: william_syd on February 19, 2008, 08:20:54 AM

Quote from: arne on February 19, 2008, 06:26:23 AM

Solved due to help from the existing post in this forum.

Did edit and reedit the file modprobe.conf file.
Did also have to remove and reinstall virtual network adapter.

The how-to never made it into the new wiki.

Old Wiki (http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/smeserver/contribs/gswallow/old_wiki/How-To%20install%20VMware-Tools%20on%20a%20SME%207.0%20Virtual%20Machine.html)

Title: Re: How to install and run Vmware tools ?
Post by: cactus on February 19, 2008, 08:36:45 AM

Quote from: william_syd on February 19, 2008, 08:20:54 AM

The how-to never made it into the new wiki.

Old Wiki (http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/smeserver/contribs/gswallow/old_wiki/How-To%20install%20VMware-Tools%20on%20a%20SME%207.0%20Virtual%20Machine.html)

I have succesfully used this in the past: http://synapticsolutions.com.au/?page_id=28

I only decided on using the parameter clock=pit