Endian EFW 3.0 and VMware Tools install

[Guest]

[Fossy777]

Hi there,

since the 3.0 is final since a few weeks I was wondering about anybody already can tell the community how to install the VMware Tools on it. I already tried the last post about how to install them on 2.5.1 but this doesn´t work on 3.0.

Thanks in advance, Jochen

[mr_tyl3r_durd3n]

Me too ,  why endian community source are not fully aviable?

kernel-headers are missing  also for 2.5.2

[wboerhoop]

VMTools Install
ESXserver:
VM (tab drop-down menu)
Guest
Install/Upgrade VMtools

login on console Endian firewall:
** Substitute VM to the name of the VMWare archive.

Type:
- cd
- mkdir /mnt/cdrom
- mkdir vmtools
- cd vmtools
- mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
- cp /mnt/cdrom/VM[TAB] .     (space fullstop means to copy to my current location which is /vmtools)
- umount /dev/cdrom
- tar -zxf VM[TAB]
- ll
- cd vmw[TAB]
- ll
- ./vm[TAB]

**Change to no for GCC and Kernal Options All other Will be
 
 
Having vmware-tools start on boot:
I hacked up some init scripts to have vmware tools start reliably on boot time. Probably not the best way, but it works.
Edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.ipac and add a reference to a vmware startup script.

Change :

   echo "Setting up ip accounting"
   /etc/rc.d/helper/writeipac.pl
   /usr/sbin/fetchipac -S
   exit 0


to:

   echo "Setting up ip accounting"
   /etc/rc.d/helper/writeipac.pl
   /usr/sbin/fetchipac -S
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.vmware
   exit 0

Save and exit the file. Next, create the vmware startup script, reboot:

   echo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start > /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.vmware
   chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.vmware
   reboot

Log back into SSH after the reboot, wait for a good 2 - 3 minutes for all the startup scripts to complete, and verify vmware-tools was installed properly:

   root@efw-1351283599:~ # ps -ef |grep vm
   root      5120     2  0 12:20 ?        00:00:00 [vmmemctl]
   root      5270     1  0 12:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vmtoolsd
   root      5526  5517  0 12:24 pts/0    00:00:00 grep vm


Goodluck 

[Fossy777]

Doesn´t work here:

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...


Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
   Guest operating system daemon:                          [  OK  ]
   Virtual Printing daemon:                                [  OK  ]
   Unmounting HGFS shares:                                 [  OK  ]
   Guest filesystem driver:                                [  OK  ]



Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed...

make
gcc
kernel headers of the running kernel


Searching for GCC...
The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

...?

Didn´t you also have to compile it? Any help appreciated.

Best regards, Jochen

[wboerhoop]

During installation:

**Change to no for GCC and Kernal Options All other Will be

Default answer for all installation options isa yes (enter),  only with GCE and Kernel option say No

[Fossy777]

I don´t know what kind of VMware tools you have but I always had to compile it to get it work on any other linux systems. Anyway I tried all you wrote and as I expected it does not work here. I guess compiling it is a must.

[mr_tyl3r_durd3n]

For me is working ok

fix only whit this  to get working correctly guest reboot end shutdown

ln -s /etc/init.d/dhcpcd /etc/init.d/network

And create /sbin/ifup ifdown

nano -w /sbin/ifup
/sbin/ifconfig $1 up

chmod 744 /sbin/ifup

nano -w /sbin/ifdown
/sbin/ifconfig $1 down

chmod 744 /sbin/ifdown

[Fossy777]

Strange. I did all that and for me it is *not* working:

root@firewall:/etc/init.d # ./vmware-tools status
vmware-guestd is not running

Maybe it is dependent of the VMware version one is running? I use 4.1

Is there a way to cleanly de-install all and try the complete procedure again without having to install the whole firewall again?

[TheEricHarris]

Thanks, followed instructions and vmtools start up just find on my ESXi 5.1 box.