vmware tools?

[joea at j4computers.com]

The problem is very simple, once understood. The file is a "virtual file", it does not exist as an discrete file in the file system.  I did not grasp this at first.

Once one starts vmtools install, and is in the vm guest, one, with SLES10 anyway, one must manually mount the cdrom.  In a Virtual Instant, the files appear.  

>From there it is a cake walk.

joe a.

>>> On 8/16/2008 at 7:28 PM, Leonard Holling <lholling at microvell.com.au> wrote:
> 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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