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cpc

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Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 42

VMware Tools problem

I install Arch on VMware Workstation 6.5.2 and follow this guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … tation_6.5 to install VMware Tools, but I find that the VMware Tools is not correctly installed, because if I run command ps -e | grep ".vm.", the output should like this

$ ps -e | grep ".vm."
1765 ? 00:00:00 vmhgfs
3589 ? 00:00:00 vmmemctl
3637 ? 00:00:02 vmware-guestd
4090 ? 00:00:01 vmware-user

but what I get is like this

$ ps -e | grep ".vm."
3014 ?        00:00:06 vmware-guestd

the modules vmhgfs and vmmemctl are not created by the installation script, that is why although I add this line ".host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,user,ttl=5,uid=root,gid=root,fmask=0133,dmask=0022 0 0" to /etc/fstab and create a folder /mnt/hgfs, I still can not mount the share folder that I assign in the guest setting, the command vmware-hgfsclient confirms that the share folder is correctly assigned.

$ vmware-hgfsclient
sda2

Does anyone ever experience the same problem? and is there any solution to fix it? thanks for reply.

cpc

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Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 42

Re: VMware Tools problem

I just run the script vmware-config-tools.pl again, but the problem persists, can anyone help? thanks a lot.

===================================================================
...
Extracting the sources of the vmblock module.

Building the vmblock module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only/linux/block.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only/linux/os.h:35,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only/linux/block.c:26:
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:67: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only/linux/block.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29-ARCH'
make: *** [vmblock.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmblock-only'
Unable to build the vmblock module.

ulis

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 7

Re: VMware Tools problem

http://archlnx.blogspot.com/2009/04/vmw … -2629.html
But it is written in Russian

Last edited by ulis (2009-05-04 11:50:37)

cpc

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Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 42

Re: VMware Tools problem

This patch is helpless, I ever tried before.

ulis

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 7

Re: VMware Tools problem

Reinstall VMware.

sudo vmware-uninstall

and Required!!!

sudo rm -R /usr/lib/vmware
...
sudo ./VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.bundle
....

Last edited by ulis (2009-05-04 12:39:32)

cpc

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Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 42

Re: VMware Tools problem

This patch is for VMware Workstation 6.5.2 that runs on  Linux kernel 2.6.29, not for the VMware Tools installed in virtual machine (guest).

ulis

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 7

Re: VMware Tools problem

Sorry. My translation was incorrect.