I tried these steps and got same problem.
But I found something in /opt/vmware
It's the VMWare Tools ISO files!
So, type:
mount -t iso9660 linux.iso
And install it follow this instruction:
]]>wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vm/vmware-tools/vmware-tools.tar.gz
tar -xvzf vmware-tools.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools
makepkg -s --asroot
pacman -U vmware-tools.pkg.tar.xz
exit
umount /mnt
reboot
No errors were reported but unfortunately it doesn't work. If I run ifconfig, I can only see the loopback interface. VMware Player doesn't detect any version of VMware Tools installed.
]]>./vmware-install.pl
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1001 %which sh
/usr/bin/sh
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1002 %ll $(which sh)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 28 18:50 /usr/bin/sh -> bash
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1003 %
On Arch, it is a soft link to bash. Bash lives in /usr/bin
]]>depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major and minor information. Igonring.
The above error seems not to be critical. But then I get another error when stopping Thinprint and VMware tools though all activities complete successfully:
sh: : command not found
sh: : command not found
Then I get the following errors at the end of the installation:
depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major and minor information. Igonring.
Warning: This script could not find mkinitrd or update-initramfs and cannot remake the initrd file!
depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major and minor information. Igonring.
...
VM communication interface socket family:[ 2530.549324] vmci: exports duplicate symbol vmci_context_get_priv_flags (owned by vmw_vmci)
Guest operating system daemon:
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted.
I have Linux kernel 3.13.5-1-ARCH (x64) on VMware Player 6.0.1 build-1379776 running atop Debian 7 with kernel 3.12.0.bpo.1-amd64. I have also the latest version of VMware tools.
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