Problem installing VMWare Tools
ServersIn the past year I have "discovered" how cool VMWare is. This virtual machine software allows you to run a huge variety of operating systems as guests under your host operating system. On my laptop, I have run ... errrr.... I mean I know someone who as run Mac OSX, a handful of different Linux distributions and even Windows. For most supported operating systems, VMWare recommends that you click a menu option to install the VMWare tools on the guest operating system. I have tried this repetitively but I always have the same result. It acts like it is going to start doing some type of installation but just never advances. If you look in the menu the option changes from "Install VMWare tools" to "Cancel Installation of VMWare Toos" so it thinks it is doing something. Inevitably after 10 minutes or so, I give up and cancel.
Tonight, however, I was a bit more curious. I noticed that when I began the install the CD icon on the task bar flashed a bit. After logging into the guest Windows operating system, I saw that the virtual CD was labeled VMWare. When I clicked into it, I found the setup program for VMWare tools. It ran it without issue!
I just thought I better document this in case anyone ran across the same situation.
I too have had this issue when attempting to install the VMtools and when and attemted to view the contents of the CD and there to my surprise was the rpm to install the tools.
I am interested in you comment on MacOSX. I use vmware for teaching at a community college and we don't currently have any good resources to show folks any Mac stuff.
Anyhow, thanks for the pathway on the vmtools.
Pete
MacOS is based on freeBSD, which VMware has a VMWare tools script for, but MacOS has weird nuances like ldd->otool -L and kldstat->kextstat etc...
So yeah, MacOS is a bit tough to get "optimized". I have it running now and it's a bit laggy.
after that it asks me for a couple of folders where it should install. i just enter yesyesyes... but after the 2nd folder it crashes with the message:
Unable to copy the source file ./installer/services.sh to the destination file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-tools.sh.
anybody any idea how to solve this? i'm quite the mac os / linux / unix noob, so it might be a bit dumb question, but any help is welcome ^^
thanks in advance
Manny
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