[gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools

[gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools

[Xi Shen]

hi,

my gentoo x64 kernel is compiled by genkernel. after i have installed
the native tool, i am asked to run the vmware-config-toos.pl. but it
says none of the pre-build vmmemctl modules is suitable for my running
kernel, and it tries to rebuild it. but it looks like it cannot find
my kernel source file correctly. it says

"/usr/src/linux/include" is a kernel header file directory, but it is
not part of kernel source tree.

why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is
patched by gentoo?


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Re: [gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools

[Keith Dart]

=== On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: ===
> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is
> patched by gentoo?

===

Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.


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[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote:
> === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: ===
>> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is
>> patched by gentoo?
>
> ===
>
> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.

Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running 
Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Dave Jones]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45:
>>> why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is
>>> patched by gentoo?

>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.

> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running
> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

No.  It works fine with other operating systems too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Dave Jones]

Dave Jones wrote on 21/10/09 23:07:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote on 21/10/09 22:45:
>>> Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules.
>> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running
>> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

> No.  It works fine with other operating systems too.

Oops. Extract foot from mouth.

Of course emerging vmware-modules is for Gentoo host only.

Guests using other operating systems are fine once you've emerge'd the
host modules.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Keith Dart]

=== On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ===
> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running 
> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)

===

Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest. 

Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a "make
config"). The build sets up some symlinks that building other,
third-party modules need. 

I also have a modified rc script for the tools, that works with openrc.
Let me know if you want it.

I also have an up-to-date Gentoo x86 server VM with the tools already
installed. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

[Xi Shen]

well, currently i am using the open-vm-tool, which is the open source
version. but i want to know if they are the same in function. can
someone tell me?

thanks.


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> === On Wed, 10/21, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ===
>> Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only?  (As opposed to running
>> Gentoo as a guest inside another OS.)
>
> ===
>
> Oooh... you mean running Gentoo as a guest.
>
> Well, you do have to have built a kernel first (or at least a "make
> config"). The build sets up some symlinks that building other,
> third-party modules need.
>
> I also have a modified rc script for the tools, that works with openrc.
> Let me know if you want it.
>
> I also have an up-to-date Gentoo x86 server VM with the tools already
> installed.
>
>
> -- Keith Dart
>
> --
> -- --------------------
> Keith Dart
> <keith@dartworks.biz>
> =======================
>
>



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