Hi,
Unfortunately "tedious method" doesn't tell us what you did.
Can you also tell us the version of your ESX3.5 host? Is your host up-to-date?
Which version of the tools did you install? Didn't you copy an old version perchance?
If your host is up-to-date then the vmware-tools should install.. I have several VM's running..
Here's some of my notes, maybe it helps:
First mount the linux.iso by selecting "install VMware tools"
cd ~ cp /cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz . ls -all tar -xvf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` sudo ./vmware-install.pl
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Wil
Hello,
Moved tot eh VI: Virtual Machine and Guest OS forum.
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Tedious method is:
apt-get install autoconf automake binutils make cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r)
mount Linux iso by initiating tools install
extract tools tar.gz file to /tmp
run install script
check console: tools come up as ToolsOld and no IP address
reboot guest: tools come up as not installed
ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-tools /etc/rc2.d/Svmware-tools
ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-tools /etc/rc3.d/Svmware-tools
reboot: tools show as ToolsOld.
On next reboot, tools once again show as not installed with no IP address
This is a lot more tiresome than RHEL!
Hi,
I am not saying that there is no room for improvement.
Thanks for the extra information on what you did.
Can you tell us your ESX host patch level and what version of VMware-tools you installed?
Also I notice just now that you are manually setting symbolic links for runlevel 2 and 3. This should not be required in order to start vmware-tools.
Have you created your own /etc/inittab ?
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Wil
Good point about patch level, this is on anew host and not yet connected to vum. It's Update3 build 123630 though so not far off.
VM tools is VMwareTools-3.5.0-123630.tar.gz and the Windows VMs report the same build number.
The versions sound OK to me. Is it possible that you are having an old leftover setup on your VM, or is it the first time you installed vmware-tools in your guest?
Have you customized any settings in your guest OS vmx file, for example for security hardening the guest OS?
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Wil
No, the guest is freshly built and plain vanilla.
Hmmm... weird. Can you attach and upload the vmware.log file that sits in the same folder as your VM to your reply, maybe that will help us tracking what is happening?
Also can you check if you have network connectivity?
One thing that you could always try (if not done already) is to re-install vmware-tools once more by rerunning the vmware-install.pl script.
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Wil
Should have tried this first: I rebooted, ran the config.pl script again and this time it worked. I guess somethign must have failed during the install, maybe I forgot to sudo it or something, but anyway, thanks for the help, this now appears to be resolved. Another distro on the "we know how to get this one started" list