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Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

majortom67 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:52:18 GMT

OK, npw pt. 4 is OK as for suggestions from previous 3d.

The problem is now lots of errors at pt. 3 regardless also installing the libicu-dev package... very sad for my 2nd experience with a Linux Distro... hope it's just a virtualization problem but I don't want it now as a direct boot until I get familiar with it.

Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

majortom67 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:23:11 GMT

Referring to the following link (document):

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4810

at step nr. 4 I immediately get the following line:
simon@KubuntuMacBook:~/desktop/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166/modules/linux$

Nothin happens, it is an immediate result. I'm not English so I hope my explanationis clear.

Is it correct? I don't think so as Shared Folders do not work and networking works regardless routing (roaming) is still enabled and network type is still on DHCP.

Any suggestion?

Many Thanks.

Simon

Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

hankhero — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:40:51 GMT

After trying it out for an hour or, I am not very happy with the solution. The mouse-movement is very sluggish, the pointer moves very unresponsive. If it doesn't get better I will have to roll back to my snapshot of ubuntu 7.10. I saw another thread with some people upset about VMWare:s slow Linux support, I agree fully with them. Having to mess with things like this for one of the most common software developer platforms (debian/ubuntu) is not what I expected, I think vmware are a bit out of touch with their customers.

Update:

I found a solution:

http://peterc.org/2008/64-how-to-enable-vertical-mouse-wheel-scrolling-in-ubuntu-hardy-on-vmware-fusion.html

It need a reboot to work good, restarting only X got me two mouse pointers. Which is a feature I always have wanted for pair programming and for keeping people behind my shoulder from putting greasy fingerprints on my screen. But that bonus dissappeared after a reboot.

Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

hankhero — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:15:52 GMT

Thanks for this,

I followed the step by step document, it works but I want to share some minor details.

For VMWare Fusion 1.1.3 Ubuntu 8.04 on 10 july 2008

build-essentials is called build-essential without an s.

Also required was libicu-dev

I got permisson denied on the for ..do line, resolve it like this:

cd vmware-tools-distrib/lib/source

chmod a+rw *

Then continuing as explained.

Thanks again, great! Sad and strange that this issue is not prioritized by vmware.

Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

hkoster1 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:17:24 GMT

You could also download the "open-vm-source" and "open-vm-tools" packages from Debian testing, http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/open-vm-{source,tools} to some Download directory. From that directory, installation as follows:

1. Install the "debhelper", "dpatch" and "module-assistant" packages.
2. Run the "sudo m-a prepare" command.
3. Install the above mentioned source package with the "sudo dpkg -i open-vm-source.....deb" command.
4. Compile/install the modules with the "sudo m-a a-i open-vm" command.
5. Install the above mentioned tools package with the "sudo dpkg -i open-vm-tools.....deb" command

That should do it, works for me.

Re: VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

Pat Lee — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:54:12 GMT

Thanks to you for taking the time to document this, it is greatly appreciated.

Pat

VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24 - Step By Step

diamondsw — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:47:43 GMT

All credit goes to Mufassa for coming up with the excellent approach to installing VMWare Tools on recent Linux distros. I turned it into a step-by-step post on my blog, and published it as a document.

In summary:
• Install any dependencies not shipped with a default Ubuntu install (build-essentials, libgtk2.0-dev, libproc-dev, libdumbnet-dev, xorg-dev)
• Get the official and open tools, and extract them
• Compile the open tools
• Rename and tar them as expected by the official tools
• Overwrite the official tools archives with the open ones
• Install them using the official tools install script

Enjoy!