VMware-tools in Gentoo Guest OS
Schraalhans Keukenmeester
Virtual Machine (VMware Workstation 5)
/usr/bin/vmware-installer.pl asks for the path to the rc0.d .. rc9.d
directories. Since Gentoo does not work with rcX.d , how do I get the
installer to work ? (simply ignoring it, or pointing to the runlevels
directory won't work.
VMware's forums/Knowledge Base don't seem to have a solution either.
Any experience ? Ideas?
Thanks!
Sh.
Florian Klein
> directories. Since Gentoo does not work with rcX.d , how do I get the
> installer to work ? (simply ignoring it, or pointing to the runlevels
> directory won't work.
>
> VMware's forums/Knowledge Base don't seem to have a solution either.
>
> Any experience ? Ideas?
Have you tried "emerge -av app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools"?
It's ~x86-masked. Maybe check out the Ebuild to find the solution to your
problem.
Bye
Florian
J.O. Aho
You could make a dirty hack and create the directories in question
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc1.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc2.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc4.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc6.d
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc0.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc1.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc2.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc3.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc4.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc5.d /etc/
ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc6.d /etc/
What the script may do is to create/modify some init scripts, this can be
somewhat important stuff, so check them up a bit and you may have to add your
own script to do the same.
//Aho
Schraalhans Keukenmeester
made the dirs and skipped the symlinks altogether. (not that smart
perhaps, but it works!)
Rgds
SH
J.O. Aho
> Thanks, works for me. VMWare toolbox is running ok now! Actually I only
> made the dirs and skipped the symlinks altogether. (not that smart
> perhaps, but it works!)
It's not all distros who uses the symlinks (RedHat does), just added those
just in case the perl script used the symlinks instead of the real path.
Good that you got it working.
//Aho