VMware Tools

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[Child of Wonder]

Has anyone had any success getting this installed for Endian?  I have 2.2 R3 running in VMware Server 1.0.8 and it runs well, however I'd like to get VMware Tools installed.

Thanks

[mrkroket]

I followed these instructions:
http://www.rndgroup.co.nz//2009/01/30/vmware-tools-in-an-endian-appliance/

[phoenix]

I followed these instructions:
http://www.rndgroup.co.nz//2009/01/30/vmware-tools-in-an-endian-appliance/

That link gives a page not found.

Ah, I see that's on their blo g page and there's a double '//' in the link above. The forum software seems not to like the word "" (see it removed it even as a normal word  ) in a url and removes it. Go to this about us page: http://www.rndgroup.co.nz/about-us.html and click on the blo g link for the correct page.

I meant to add, many thanks for that link. I've just moved my EFW from xen to VMware ESXi and wanted to install the tools.

[phoenix]

Just to finish off for anyone that's interested. Those instructions work fine for VMware ESXi tools and they get installed and working with the exception that there's a problem applying the patch. There's an error when it's applied to the current ESXi tools script, I'm not too good at scripting so I haven't been able to fix that problem - I'll keep trying.

[mvn2000]

...I'll keep trying.

You can download VMware appliance with VMware Tools and Midnight Commander here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng
or here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng_for_marco

[phoenix]

...I'll keep trying.

You can download VMware appliance with VMware Tools and Midnight Commander here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng
or here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng_for_marco

Thanks for those downloads, very nice especially as the vmware tools are already installed - it'll save me having to pull what's left of my hair out trying to fix the script.  I'll give them a try shortly.

Just a quick question about the vmware tools, is it possible to upgrade the tools in place or what would I need to do to upgrade them?

[mrkroket]

...I'll keep trying.

You can download VMware appliance with VMware Tools and Midnight Commander here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng
or here: http://tuxwiki.hu/doku.php?id=linux:endianeng_for_marco

Thanks for those downloads, very nice especially as the vmware tools are already installed - it'll save me having to pull what's left of my hair out trying to fix the script.  I'll give them a try shortly.

Just a quick question about the vmware tools, is it possible to upgrade the tools in place or what would I need to do to upgrade them?

I recently changed from VMWare server 1.0.8 to 2.0.0 and I was able to upgrade vmware-tools. It isn't simple, but doable. You'll need the efw devel RPMS, vmware-tools patched for efw and gcc in the correct version. I also changed the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local to manually start the vmware-tools.
As I have little idea of linux, I do the brute force way, I tried everything until it works. Where I have most problems is installing gcc 4.1 (gcc 3.6 doesn't work) to recompile vmware-tools.