You do not have VMware Tools installed?
Bill
install VMware Tools but I still have the message "You do not have
VMware Tools installed" in the status bar of the VMware window. Is that
normal for a guest without X?
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Jim Henderson
I don't think so; make sure the VMware Guest daemon is up and running in
the guest.
Jim
Bill
I am a Linux novice so please bare with me. What, exactly, do you mean
by "the VMware Guest daemon"? If I do a ps -A there is no process whose
name starts with vmware or whose name is Guest.
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Bill
display:" I assume that is happening because X is not installed.
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Jim Henderson
> If I run vmware-toolbox I get the error "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
> display:" I assume that is happening because X is not installed.
Yes - vmware-toolbox requires that you run it under X - it won't do
anything but this in text mode.
Jim
Jim Henderson
No problem.
What steps did you follow to install the tools? Did you install the RPM?
Try:
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
If this shows that it's unused or dead (or otherwise not running - I'm
running SUSE here myself, and the init script output looks different
between the two versions), then try:
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
This *should* be starting automatically, but it sounds like it probably
isn't for some reason.
Jim
Liberals R. Intolerant
player let's you install the tools, but server does and I use server.
Download server, install it, then use it to install the tools into RedHat.
Frank W. Werneburg
I use OpenSuSE 10.2 as guest in WinXP. I also have installed the VMware
Tools several times. Yast says the packet is activ, but the VMWare server
still says "You do not have VMware Tools installed". I also don't knew,
what I should do.
Frank
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Jim Henderson
> "Bill" <n...@no.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a Red Hat Enterprise 4 guest installed without X-Windows. I did
>>install VMware Tools but I still have the message "You do not have VMware
>>Tools installed" in the status bar of the VMware window. Is that normal
>>for a guest without X?
>
> I use OpenSuSE 10.2 as guest in WinXP. I also have installed the VMware
> Tools several times. Yast says the packet is activ, but the VMWare server
> still says "You do not have VMware Tools installed". I also don't knew,
> what I should do.
Make sure the vmware service is actually running - should be the commands
I posted in an earlier message in this thread.
Jim
Frank W. Werneburg
If I type "/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stadus" the answer is
"Usage: vmware-tools {start|stop|stadusrestart}".
If I type "/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start" the answer is
"Switching to host config: done".
If I now type "/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stadus" again the answer is still
"Usage: vmware-tools {start|stop|stadusrestart}",
but VMware server stil says "You do not have VMware Tools installed".
Jim Henderson
> stadus
Try "status", as I wrote in the message showing the command. ;-)
Jim
Frank W. Werneburg
>> stadus
>
>Try "status", as I wrote in the message showing the command. ;-)
I think, I should learn to read. ;-)
New try:
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmware-guestd is not running
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
Starting VMware Tools services on the host:
Switching to host config: done
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmware-guestd is not running
Jim Henderson
> Jim Henderson <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>> stadus
>>
>>Try "status", as I wrote in the message showing the command. ;-)
>
> I think, I should learn to read. ;-)
<g> I have that problem from time to time as well. ;-)
> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
> vmware-guestd is not running
> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
> Starting VMware Tools services on the host:
> Switching to host config: done
> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
> vmware-guestd is not running
Sounds like the daemon is crashing for some reason. Do you see anything
in /var/log/messages around the time of the startup that might provide
some hints?
Jim
Frank W. Werneburg
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
>> vmware-guestd is not running
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
>> Starting VMware Tools services on the host:
>> Switching to host config: done
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
>> vmware-guestd is not running
>
>Sounds like the daemon is crashing for some reason. Do you see anything
>in /var/log/messages around the time of the startup that might provide
>some hints?
The messages above was when I start the tools as an user. Now I have
attempt it as root. Than the message is the same as Bernd Meier wrote in
the thread "None of VMware Tool's pre-built vmhgfs modules is suitable for
your running kernel." The problem semms to be, that VMware have no
pre-built modules for Open SuSE 10.2. When I have enough time, I will
attempt to build an own module.
Jim Henderson
> Jim Henderson <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
>>> vmware-guestd is not running
>>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
>>> Starting VMware Tools services on the host:
>>> Switching to host config: done
>>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
>>> vmware-guestd is not running
>>
>>Sounds like the daemon is crashing for some reason. Do you see anything
>>in /var/log/messages around the time of the startup that might provide
>>some hints?
>
> The messages above was when I start the tools as an user. Now I have
> attempt it as root. Than the message is the same as Bernd Meier wrote in
> the thread "None of VMware Tool's pre-built vmhgfs modules is suitable for
> your running kernel." The problem semms to be, that VMware have no
> pre-built modules for Open SuSE 10.2. When I have enough time, I will
> attempt to build an own module.
Ah, yes, that would do it. You'd have to have the kernel sources and
other build tools installed to do that. I somehow missed you were using
OpenSUSE 10.2.
Jim