VMware Fusion® (for Mac) : VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step : Comments

RE: VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

mmoo9154 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:49:34 GMT

diamonds,

Thanks for the post. I really can't believe this problem has existed for so darn long, and that there is no definitive solution on Google, or on the VMware forum. There has got to be a scary amount of lost productivity because of this annoyance.

I followed your step-by-stepguide , which did allow me to compile the openvm sources. Thanks again! (I still can't get the sources provided by VMware in the VMware Tools archive to compile. Gross.)

When I was trying to compile under Ubuntu 8.04, I may have selected the wrong X libs. I didn't see any instructions on how to select (correctly) between xorg-dev and libX11-dev. It was also a little ambiguouse whether you were saying xorg-dev or the four other dev sources (libX11-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxtst-dev). I read it as just the 2 alternatives (xorg-dev or libX11-dev).

I selected libX11-dev the first time. There were only 2 hiccups: The first was that half way through the ./configure it barked about missing ICU.org sources. I added libicu-dev to the long list of sources to install and then ./configure && make sailed without warnings.

The second hiccup was that the "for dir ... done" didn't work. The latest VMware Tools from VMwarer is VMwareTools-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz. When that untars (with tar -xzvf), the vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/*.tar files come out read-only (444). Tar won't crush them unless you chmod 644 them first.

Then, everything seemed to work, but (after re-booting), the stupid mouse won't release unless I tap Ctl+Alt. According to the Server Console, that indicates VMware Tools isn't running in the guest. I verified /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd is running and vmware-checkvm returns: VMware software version 6 (good)

That's it from the battlefront. I sure hope someone else has more luck than me.
I've just tried to recompile the

RE: VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

rickcr1205 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:23 GMT

Few extra comments:

I also needed to get libicu-dev
Thanks for the comment on the permissions issue as well for the old directory modules. (For those new just go to the directory /vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source and type "sudo chmod 644 *"

-My mouse seems to work ok. I had to modify according to another person's post in order to get middle mouse scroll wheel to work. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file the device section for the mouse looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Lastly the writing to the mounted mac drive that I have shared really had me thrown for a long while. I was a bit confused by the instructions above. What I ended up doing (please back up your home directory before trying this) was:

Log back in with the fail safe terminal (see it under sessions in the boot screen)
become root "sudo -i"
add the staff group as 20 "groupadd -g 20 staff"
Change the userid and groupid of your normal account to match what is on your mac (for me it needed to be 501, and 20.) I use the same username on the vmware ubuntu as the mac so that might matter as well. To change these as root I did:

"usermod -u 501 yourusername"
"usermod -g 20 yourusername"

(I might have also had to add myself back to my username group as well.. can't remember but if so "useradd -G yourname yourname" (where the first yourname should be the name of a group ubuntu set up for you by default when you first installed ubuntu.)

Someone please correct me if I did something really stupid above. It seems to work now allowing me to write fine to the mac mounted volume. I was a bit weary of using uid 501 and a group 20... hopefully I didn't clobber something important. I'm pretty new to Linux so take the above with a grain of salt.