[solved] HowTo get vmware tools working *properly*

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InfoManiac · Post by **InfoManiac** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:16 pm

UPDATED:
This Link will work better as it uses portage to get the job done as it should be.

InfoManiac · Post by **InfoManiac** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:47 pm

Wow! 299 views as of this poisting......is anyone going to help / contribute?

kikawala · Post by **kikawala** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:15 pm

I'm going through your steps at the moment using vmware tools 5.5.1 build 19175. I will let you know how it goes for me and see if I can contribute.

Post by **pjp** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:26 pm

InfoManiac wrote:Wow! 299 views as of this poisting......is anyone going to help / contribute?

I used VMware for a school project with Gentoo. I've since removed those images, and currently only have Windows 2000 running under VMware. I'll try and go through the steps one of these days and offer feedback.

kikawala · Post by **kikawala** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:33 pm

When running vmware-config-tools.pl I got the following error:

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What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

Searching on the forums and bugzilla only lead to me threads about running VMWare Workstation on Gentoo and not running Gentoo on VMWare. The errors seem to be related to using HIGHMEM in the 2.6.16 kernel. I have 2G of RAM allocated to the guest so I have to use HIGHMEM in the kernel instead of LOWMEM.

FIX: I had to run the runme.pl file from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-tools- ... te1.tar.gz to update vmware-config-tools.pl to fix the above error.

kikawala · Post by **kikawala** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:48 pm

To build the vmmemctl kernel module, I had to edit /vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h

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extern void poll_initwait(compat_poll_wqueues *);

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extern void poll_initwait(struct poll_wqueues *pwq);

and then create a symlink from vmmemctl.o to vmmemctl.ko before running depmod -a in your steps.

I think my steps are only specific to the 2.6.16 kernel I am using. What kernel are you running?

InfoManiac · Post by **InfoManiac** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:08 am

I update the doc and simplified it however, I do not run into any of these problems you've mentioned, the onlything I can think of is the kernel options you've choosen are hosing this process for you as it works 100% every time I have re-created my Gentoo VM.

vmmemctl I assume this is the memory controller driver (or something to that effect) is this needed, or even usefull? If so how should one approach installing....modify source, compile and copy or something else?

Also are there options that can be added / modified to the vmxnet source file that when re-complied and modprobed it will reflect the current NIC driver properties, not the pcnet32 properties?

InfoManiac · Post by **InfoManiac** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:31 am

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[solved] HowTo get vmware tools working properly

[solved] HowTo get vmware tools working properly