[gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[reader]

Running gentoo in a vmware hosted on winxp.

I find I cannot install the vmware-tools becasue the install script
expects there to be directories with names like rc[0-9] and blows up
when they are not found.

I stumbled around in the script trying to make it work for gentoo but only
succeded in reaping piles of perl errors due to my clumsyness in perl.

I've posted the script here:

   www.lydia-productions.com/perlscript.html

On the off chance someone is interested enough to look at it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[Richard Fish]

On 1/25/07, reader@newsguy.com <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I stumbled around in the script trying to make it work for gentoo but only
> succeded in reaping piles of perl errors due to my clumsyness in perl.

Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"
and use the version that is already updated for Gentoo?  You probably
have to merge the specific version of tools that matches your vmware
workstation version, so you might need to do something in
/etc/portage/package.mask to keep portage from trying to upgrade to
newer versions.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[Richard Fish]

On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"

Pfft, missed  a '/'....should be:
=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[reader]

"Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:

> On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"
>
> Pfft, missed  a '/'....should be:
> =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION

I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the
other way round with gentoo as host.

It turned out I was able to get it installed painlessly by creating a heard of
sysv style runlevel directories in /etc/init.d

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[Mick]

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On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:
> > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"
> >
> > Pfft, missed  a '/'....should be:
> > =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION
>
> I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the
> other way round with gentoo as host.
>
> It turned out I was able to get it installed painlessly by creating a heard
> of sysv style runlevel directories in /etc/init.d

wow! That sounds like something I *definitely* don't know how to do . . . any 
chance for a how to if you get a chance?  A wiki article would of course be 
even better.  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 26 January 2007 20:05, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> > "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:
> > > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> > >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"
> > >
> > > Pfft, missed  a '/'....should be:
> > > =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION
> >
> > I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the
> > other way round with gentoo as host.

Yeah, that would explain the description being: "Guest-os tools for VMware 
Workstation". Or not...

> > It turned out I was able to get it installed painlessly by creating a
> > heard of sysv style runlevel directories in /etc/init.d
>
> wow! That sounds like something I *definitely* don't know how to do . . .
> any chance for a how to if you get a chance?  A wiki article would of
> course be even better.  :-)

Why? There's an ebuild..? Richard already said that.

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[reader]

Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> writes:

>> > I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the
>> > other way round with gentoo as host.
>
> Yeah, that would explain the description being: "Guest-os tools for VMware 
> Workstation". Or not...

Hehe... well I've never made any claims to being a high wattage bulb....

But even now in my dimness, calling them `vmware-worstation tools' in
one breath then reversing it in the next with: 
`Guest-os tools for VMware Workstation' seems almost intended to
confuse.

The more so since vmware documentation refers to them as
`vmware-tools' in many places not `vmware-workstation tools'.

Just my 10watts.

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

[reader]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday 26 January 2007 17:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
>> "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:
>> > On 1/26/07, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>> >> Why not just "emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION"
>> >
>> > Pfft, missed  a '/'....should be:
>> > =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION
>>
>> I wasn't sure what that was... thought it would be for vmware the
>> other way round with gentoo as host.
>>
>> It turned out I was able to get it installed painlessly by creating a heard
>> of sysv style runlevel directories in /etc/init.d
>
> wow! That sounds like something I *definitely* don't know how to do . . . any 
> chance for a how to if you get a chance?  A wiki article would of course be 
> even better.  :-)

http://gentoovm.blogspot.com/2006/03/install-vmware-tools-in-gentoo-vm.html

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