vmware

[Kam Leo]

On 1/22/07, Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 1/22/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 1/21/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> >> >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On 1/21/07, toracat <toracat at adelphia.net> wrote:
> >> >> >> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:16:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> The error message is "Unable to open the installer database
> >> >> >> >> /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.".
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> > see?  Also update106 is out now. Have you tried that one?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> It is not at http://http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/. What is the URL?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> > Found the file at
> >> >> >> >
> >> http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update106.tar.gz
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Does not work with workstation 5.5.3. Still getting the
> >> "Unable to
> >> >> open
> >> >> >> > installer..." error.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Your error sounds unusual.  Does the /etc/vmware/locations file
> >> exist?
> >> >> >> This error message would occur if the installation script
> >> >> >> (vmware-install.pl) cannot open that file.  If your vmware
> >> installation
> >> >> is
> >> >> >> broken somehow, uninstall and reinstall might help.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > vmware-any-any-update106/runme.pl expects "location" to be in
> >> >> > /etc/vmware. The directory, /etc/vmware, is empty. It would appear
> >> >> > that version 5.5.3 of workstation has moved its files to
> >> >> > /etc/vmware-tools.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Also linking /etc/vmware
> >> >> > to /etc/vmware-tools. Neither works.
> >> >>
> >> >> Very strange, as I have VMwareWorkstation-5.5.3-34685 and it builds
> >> fine
> >> >> (except for one warning in the network compile--and works fin--with
> >> >> kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 and without the vmware-any-any patch.
> >> >>
> >> >> $ ls /etc/vmware/
> >> >> config        locations     vmnet1/
> >> >> installer.sh  state/        vmnet8/
> >> >> $ rpm -qf /etc/vmware
> >> >> VMwareWorkstation-5.5.3-34685
> >> >>
> >> >> /etc/vmware-tools is from the vmware-tools guest package, not the
> >> VMware
> >> >> host package.
> >> >>
> >> >> So what is the host OS and what is the guest OS?  What package did you
> >> >> install on the host, and what on the guest?  What are you trying to
> >> build
> >> >> on the host and what on the geust?  RPM or tarball?
> >> >
> >> > Host is Windows 2000. Guest is FC6.  VMware-Tools is installed as an
> >> RPM.
> >>
> >> So that begs the question: What are you doing trying to run
> >> vmware-config.pl in your FC6 guest?  And where did you get it?
> >> VMwareTools doesn't have that script.  You shouldn't install
> >> VMwareWorkstation in the guest unless you are trying to do something
> >> bizarre like running a VM on your guest.
> >>
> >
> > The situation is as follows:
> >
> > 1)  I have VMware Workstation 5.5.3 installed on a Windows 2000 host.
> > 2)  FC6 is a guest VM.
> > 3)  I'm trying to configure VMware Tools on the guest VM (FC6) for the
> > 2.6.19 kernel.
> > 4)  vmware-config.pl is a script which is included with VMware Tools,
> > a utility provided with VMware Workstation.  VMware Tools is packaged
> > both in rpm and tar formats.
>
> it's called 'vmware-config-tools.pl' actually

Thanks. You're correct. I may be getting into a bad habit of relying
on bash's tab-completion feature and in the process overlooking the
entire command.