Comments on: Install VMware Tools in the Gentoo VM

By: jay

jay — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:50:20 +0000

Hi Stonie, check this thread out http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/offline-vmware-disk-shrink

it has some reasonable information in it on how to shrink a disk. Personally i use vmware-vdiskmanager to shrink vmdk files and it has worked fine in the past.

By: Stonie

Stonie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:06:59 +0000

Install worked… but does anyone know how to compact a vm on the commandline without X? vmware-toolbox seems to want X?

Stonie.

By: syrabo

syrabo — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:38:59 +0000

It’ works on my first look.

My Systems:

Gentoo (Guest) amd64 with Kernel: gentoo-source 2.6.23 on Vmware Fusion 1.1 (Mac OS X 10.5.1)

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:22:41 +0000

Bah - I didn’t change the power options in the console for this vm . . .

It’s all systems go using the above method.

I also copied a script that prettifies the output of vmware-tools script. Not sure where I got it from, probably out of the workstation tools ebuild or something. For this new vm i just pinched it from the working box

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:17:57 +0000

Well I installed the latest and it says its all working but when I hit the shutdown button on the Console the machine gets killed instead of shutdown…

Damn thing.

I also have this working on another vm but I can’t remember how I installed it. I have a feeling I used the ebuild vmware-server-tools, but it appears to have disappeared form the portage tree.

By: Ian Gibbs

Ian Gibbs — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:22:46 +0000

Have applied tobias’ workaround and this allows the install complete, although the vmxnet driver does not compile successfully. Starting fine on boot.

By: tobias

tobias — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:21:06 +0000

USing VMware 6 beta (build 39849) vmware-config-tools.pl complained that it could not find /etc/init.d/networking and did not compile the vmxnet driver.

Workaround: ln -s /etc/init.d/net.etho /etc/init.d/networking

Cheers,

tobias

By: Rhodizzle

Rhodizzle — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:51:35 +0000

I just completed setting up gentoo 2.6.16-r9 in VMWare Server 1.0, the free one. After installing vmware-tools and emerging gnome-light, there is still a lot of mouse lag once I get into gnome. Any ideas on how to cut that down?

By: nodh

nodh — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:39:03 +0000

Same here

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:55:51 +0000

Hello,

Well, the tools are indeed get installed but they do not get start during the boot.

Message appears:

Usage: rc {start…

/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start works just fine.