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OpenSolaris 2009.6 - Unable to install VMware Tools posted: Jun 1, 2009 1:01 PM

Click to view Night81cal's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jun 1, 2009

Hi,

Have problems during installation of VMware Tools under OpenSolaris 2009.6:

Detected X.org version 7.4.3.

Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so to the destination
file /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so.

Execution aborted.

root@MacBook_Solaris:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib#
root@MacBook_Solaris:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib# cd /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/
root@MacBook_Solaris:/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg# ls -ltr
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 2009-06-01 12:28 6.8.x
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 2009-06-01 12:28 7.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 2009-06-01 12:28 7.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 2009-06-01 12:28 7.1_64
root@MacBook_Solaris:/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg#

I also attached a screenshot.

As you can see the directory "/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/*7.4*" is missing (probably because the X.Org version is too new).

Is there a more current version of VMware Tools which includes the support for XOrg 7.4 version?

Niels

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Click to view LuvableMarmot's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Jun 8, 2007

I'm having the same issue, using Version e.x.p (169060)
Click to view mauricev's profile Enthusiast 107 posts since
Mar 22, 2007

To workaround this, make a symlink

ln -s /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.1 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4

(For x64, use the 7.1_x64 directory.)

Click to view bewst's profile Novice 10 posts since
May 7, 2007
Taht workaround makes the installation complete, but doesn't seem to get me any of the Xorg features of vmware tools, e.g. mouse integration, resolution fit, etc.
Click to view Gen. K. Whale's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jan 12, 2008
Yes, I also see that the workaround proposed above does make the failure message go away, but the vmware tools don't work at all. The vmware-user process does run when I log in, but none of the features work, as far as I can tell.

When I log into my desktop GUI on the Solaris box, I can see that vmware-guestd-binary and vmware-memctld are running, but not vmware-user. If I manually start vmware-user it complains:

vmware-user: failed to load vmblock
vmware-user: failed to start vmblock

...and then proceeds to do nothing.

Any other ideas how to fix this?
Click to view bewst's profile Novice 10 posts since
May 7, 2007
Click to view dorofeev's profile Novice 6 posts since
Sep 22, 2006
Please provide messages printed by the Solaris kernel when vmblock driver fails to load.
(bug 427212 was filed for this)<!--EndFragment-->
Click to view rosstimson's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Aug 19, 2009
I have this problem as well. I see there was a bug filed for this, is there anyway to be notified when this is fixed and a new compatible version is available?
Click to view rjm's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Apr 18, 2005

Any update on a bug fix for opensolaris vmware tools install?

Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so to the destination
file /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so.
Click to view rjm's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Apr 18, 2005
Any update on a bug fix for opensolaris vmware tools install?

Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so to the destination
file /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so.

Re: OpenSolaris 2009.6 - Unable to install VMware Tools

10. Sep 27, 2009 1:04 PM in response to: rjm
Click to view lmurbina's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Sep 27, 2009
I have the same issue... any updates on this?
Click to view bodger's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Oct 19, 2009
I have this issue as well. There are drivers for XOrg up to 7.5 for Linux, so it should just be a recompile of the updated vmware_drv and vmmouse_drv for Opensolaris.
Click to view Owyn's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Mar 23, 2009
Bump.

5 months later, this is still an issue... Just installed an opensolaris 10 guest on VMware Fusion 3 and the vmware tools will not install due to this.
Click to view Scissor's profile Master 1,242 posts since
Oct 8, 2007
What about trying the "Open Virtual Machine Tools" as a workaround? Their latest release was a month ago and supposedly supports solaris...Haven't tried it myself though.

http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
Click to view bewst's profile Novice 10 posts since
May 7, 2007
I switched to VirtualBox and haven't looked back since.

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