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PostPosted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:44 am    Post subject: VMWare Workstation 8 - VMWare Tools [Solved] Reply with quote

Hello,

I am not able to install guest additions at my windows vm. I have emerged the vmware-tools package. I start the Win7 VM, click on "VM" -> "Install VMWare Tools" -> "Download and Install" -> "Install" and nothing happens, no download bar at the bottom, no cd/dvd vmware tools mount (ofc), nothing.

Here are the contents of the vmware.log for my windows vm:

Code:
gentoo shared # tail -f /root/vmware/Windows7/vmware.log
2012-11-20T12:11:02.023+02:00| vmx| I120: scsi0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.087 seconds (ok)
2012-11-20T12:11:02.023+02:00| vmx| I120: scsi0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.087 seconds (ok)
2012-11-20T12:13:31.611+02:00| vmx| I120: TOOLS INSTALL entering BEGINNING state.
2012-11-20T12:13:31.693+02:00| vmx| I120: TOOLS INSTALL '/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso' not present or not readable
2012-11-20T12:13:31.693+02:00| vmx| I120: Msg_Post: Warning
2012-11-20T12:13:31.693+02:00| vmx| I120: [msg.tools.inaccessible] Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" needed to install VMware Tools: No such file or directory.
2012-11-20T12:13:31.693+02:00| vmx| I120+ If your product shipped with the VMware Tools package, reinstall VMware Workstation, then try again to install the VMware Tools package in the virtual machine.
2012-11-20T12:13:31.693+02:00| vmx| I120: ----------------------------------------
2012-11-20T12:13:31.723+02:00| vmx| I120: TOOLS INSTALL Initialization failed.
2012-11-20T12:13:31.723+02:00| vmx| I120: TOOLS INSTALL entering IDLE state.


I was blind.
I solved it by enabling the necessary USE flags for each guest that i needed VMWare tools for at the vmware-tools package
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