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jonesypeter

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Registered: 2017-01-18

Posts: 2

Arch Linux open-vm-tools VMWare Player

Hello,

I managed to install Arch OK along with a GNOME 3 Desktop as a guest inside VMWare Player. Now I'm trying to get open-vm-tools working.

I follow this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation

I have installed open-vm-tools.

Because I'm going to a graphical desktop I run:

systemctl enable vmware-vmblock-fuse.service

systemctl start vmware-vmblock-fuse.service

When I try and run vmware-user-suid-wrapper I get this error: extension "VMWARE_CTRL" missing on display ":1"

I have checked that open-vm-tools is running by entering vmtoolsd which when run I get VMware software version 6 (good)

If I turn off the machine I get a message A stop job is running for session c1 of user gdm (This counts down from 1min 30s)

Finally, If I enable '3D acceleration' in VMWare Player settings then after booting I just get a blank screen.

Can anyone help?  Many thanks

jonesypeter

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Registered: 2017-01-18

Posts: 2

Re: Arch Linux open-vm-tools VMWare Player

Sorted. I missed the bit in the notes about installing 'xf86-video-vmware'

Kynolin

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Registered: 2017-02-23

Posts: 1

Re: Arch Linux open-vm-tools VMWare Player

Thank you for this post! I have no idea how I missed this package as well. An hour or more of searching logs and Google for odd issues I was having on a new VM I built to try out KDE Plasma... I suppose on my normal Arch+I3 installs something must have picked up this package automatically for me.

For sake of possibly helping other Google searches for the same issue:

--- System logs when I tried to change the window size of the VM, when it should have automatically adjusted resolution:
Feb 22 16:34:49 localhost systemd-coredump[746]: Process 615 (vmtoolsd) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                 
                                                 Stack trace of thread 615:
                                                 #0  0x00007fa02aeb950e n/a (libresolutionSet.so)
                                                 #1  0x00007fa02aeba2eb n/a (libresolutionSet.so)
                                                 #2  0x00007fa02aeb8c35 n/a (libresolutionSet.so)
                                                 #3  0x00007fa02aeb916f n/a (libresolutionSet.so)
                                                 #4  0x00007fa02aeb87b5 n/a (libresolutionSet.so)
                                                 #5  0x00007fa03a9cf981 RpcChannel_Dispatch (libvmtools.so.0)
                                                 #6  0x00007fa03a9d17ce n/a (libvmtools.so.0)
                                                 #7  0x00007fa03a9d2033 n/a (libvmtools.so.0)
                                                 #8  0x00007fa03a04845a g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                                 #9  0x00007fa03a048810 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                                 #10 0x00007fa03a048b32 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                                 #11 0x000000000040478a n/a (vmtoolsd)
                                                 #12 0x0000000000403dfb main (vmtoolsd)
                                                 #13 0x00007fa039c80291 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
                                                 #14 0x0000000000403e4a _start (vmtoolsd)

--- Error I also experienced when trying to launch what should have enabled automatic resolution resizing:
$ /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
Xlib:  extension "VMWARE_CTRL" missing on display ":0".

olegabrielz

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From: Norway

Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 255

Re: Arch Linux open-vm-tools VMWare Player

Sorted. I missed the bit in the notes about installing 'xf86-video-vmware'

If that resolved the issue in question just edit your first post and add [Solved] to the title.

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