vmware tools?

[Leonard Holling]

Hi Joe

What VMware software are you running Player, Workstation, Server or ESX?

When you have workstation or Server the software is contained in an ISO 
that is in the same directory as you installed the VMware product into. 
For ESX it is located in /vmimages/tools-isoimages.

In all cases as people have mentioned previously normally the Install 
VMware Tools should mount the CDROM ISO so that you can run the 
installation.

Leonard...

joea at j4computers.com wrote:
> The guest is running.  "install vm tools" does nothing.  Almost nothing.  It does pop up a screen saying the guest must be running, etc, and I can *cancel* the (attempted) install of vmware tools, so it appears to be trying to do something.
>
> I do not see any indication in /var/log/messages of any problems.  There does seem to be some VM activity per /var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log, but, nothing that leaps out at me.
>
> Docs indicate this is due to the iso image (of, imagine, vmware tools"), not being able to mount in some flavors of linux, docs then go on to describe, in detail, exactly how to install vmware tools, from the command line.
>
> Also show, quite thoughtfully, how to extract, etc.  However, the files they reference, do not exist in the distribution I downloaded.
>
> Again - , "vmware tools" does not seem to exist in either tar or rpm format, anywhere I look.  I have tried find / -name vmware-tools*.* and variations there of.
>
> Some stuff I have read seems to suggest it is distributed with vmware server, but I have extracted a fresh download of VMware-server-1.0.6.91891.tar.gz and others found at the vmware 1.0.6 download site, and searched the extracted directories.
>
> Now, I am slow, some days, and have misplaced tools when working on stuff, but I am pretty certain it just ain't there.  Unless is it hidden in a tarball of another name.
>
> Time to turn by attentions elsewhere for a bit.
>
> joe a.
>
>   
>>>> On 8/16/2008 at 5:13 PM, "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>>>>         
> wrote:
>   
>> You have to start the guest system first.
>> Then you can select the VM menu item in the VMware Server Console Window (I 
>> assume you are using VMware Server) and select Install VMware Tools.
>> It will mount a virtual CD, which will show up on the guest desktop if you 
>> have that running, which will have a vmware tools tar file and an rpm file.
>> I usually copy the rpm file to the local machine and install it using yast.
>> After you install vmware tools, you will have to run 
>> /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl to  configure it.
>> /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox can be run to set the time to sync to the host.
>>
>> -jt
>>  
>>     
>>>>> "joea at j4computers.com" <joea at j4computers.com> 8/16/2008 04:52 PM >>> 
>>>>>           
>> The host is SLES10, this guest is OES1 linux.
>>
>> The question is, where to get "vmtools cd/iso image"?
>>
>> Unless I am being unusually dense, it does not appear to be included with 
>> any of the items I have downloaded, to date.  Nor have I found it to be 
>> obvious at download locations.
>>
>> joe a.
>>
>>     
>>>>> On 8/16/2008 at 4:24 PM, "Peter Van Lone" <petervl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>> Netware?
>>>
>>> OES linux?
>>>
>>> ESX? Vmware Server? VMware workstation?
>>>
>>> Either way ... the vmwtools cd is included with vmware tools.
>>>
>>> When in workstation you go to the VM menu and select "install vmware
>>> tools" it mounts the ISO as a CD, and then in windows it auto-starts
>>> the install. In linux or netware, you connect to the cd and run the
>>> install script. Then, in linux, you run the script vmtools_config.pl
>>> (I think that is the name) and that runs through a series of questions
>>> and configures the tools.
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:09 PM, joea at j4computers.com 
>>> <joea at j4computers.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Suffering from time drift on vmware server guest.  Recall past discussions.  
>>>>         
>>> Somewhat.
>>>       
>>>> Vmware seems to think "vmware tools" installed on guest will fix this.  
>>>>         
>>> Cannot find vmware tools to download.  Do not find in packages downloaded so 
>>>       
>>> far.
>>>       
>>>> Wisdom?
>>>>
>>>> joe a.
>>>>
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Leonard Holling         Email: <mailto:lholling at microvell.com.au>
Systems Engineer        
Microvell Consulting Pty Ltd