Inconsistent status of VMware Tools installation...

[twyles]

Hi

I'm running VMware Fusion 1.1.2 on OS X 10.5.2. My guest OS is Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.

I have installed VMware Tools by selecting the menu option Virtual Machine/Install VMware Tools. The iso file mounts, I double-click to install the rpm, enter the root password when prompted and the installer completes fine.

If I mount the iso and manually navigate to /media/VMware Tools to rum rpm -Uvh VMwareTools-7.6.3-87978.i386.rpm, I am told the package is already installed.

So far so good, except at the bottom of my VMware window I see the message "VMware Tools is not installed. Choose the Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools menu".

Guest and host machines have been restarted several times.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

[powervm · Accepted solution]

I think you have installed VMware Tools with RPM package.

Then you need to configure the Tools by running the 'vmware-config-tools.pl' command

Configured it and check

[twyles]

Pull up a chair, grab a brandy and light yourself a big fat cigar!

Thanks very much. I had noticed the perl script under /usr/bin but hadn't seen reference to it anywhere in the instructions.

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