vmware tools in 6.10 Edgy Eft vmware guest

[domino]

Has anyone successfully installed vmware tools under Edgy? I didn't have a problem installing it. Just that I don't get mouse scroll and the guess OS doesn't release the mouse when I move to the host desktop.

I really don't know if this belong here or the development forum, so sorry if this thread doesn't belong here.

[zaroff]

I had the same problem with the mouse but I figured it out. To get VMware Tools working in an Edgy virtual machine, here's what I did. I followed this guide through step 5: http://asargent.com/blog/archives/35

The vmware-config-tools.pl script dies prematurely with an error about the version of Xorg, so I had to manually install the mouse driver. To get the mouse driver installed, I did:

sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.o

Then I did step 6 from the above guide to change the mouse driver in xorg.conf. Finally, vmware-config-tools.pl renamed /usr/bin/X to /usr/bin/X.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall so I had to rename it back:

sudo mv /usr/bin/X.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall /usr/bin/X

After this, I rebooted and everything was working. Hope this helps.

[domino]

Hi zaroff,

For some reason the patch seems to fails on step 5. 'Guess i'll keep trying and hopefully get the mouse running correctly.

thanks!

admin@linux:/usr/bin$ sudo patch vmware-config-tools.pl /tmp/patch.txt
patching file vmware-config-tools.pl
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y
Hunk #1 succeeded at 589 (offset 2 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 3876.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 4031.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 4077.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 4936.
4 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file vmware-config-tools.pl.rej

[domino]

Good news! it turns out after installing with vmware-tools-any-update2, all i had to do was install the mouse driver via your instructions:

sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input

sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.o

PS. There is a minor correction to your how-to

Originally Posted by zaroff To get the mouse driver installed, I did: sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input

it should be: sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input

Thanks for the heads up

[zaroff]

Originally Posted by domino PS. There is a minor correction to your how-to it should be: sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input

Thanks, domino. I've corrected it. Glad to be of help.

[saracen]

I tried the howto and it's failing on Hunks 2-5 just like domino. What's the solution?

[domino]

Try not patching anyting saracen. I failed to patch it also, but the steps I used on Post #4 solved my problem.

[saracen]

The mouse is working, scroll and everything. But X is really jittery. Moving windows and minimization is quite slow. Is this normal behavior with Ubuntu as a guest OS under vmware? It's my first time running Ubuntu in vmware (normally do normal install) so I have nothing to benchmark against.

[domino]

Assuming that vmware tools and drivers are installed correctly, it should be slightly jittery. it all depends on your processor speed and memory dedicated to your guest OS. The best way to benchmark is to install vmware workstation on a windows machine. vmware works optimal in windows. I personally don't feel any difference using edgy guest on a linux and windows host.

[Techno.Scavenger]

I think it is indeed quite slow. I am running Gentoo in VMWare server using Windows XP Sp2 as a host and it is usable. But Ubuntu 6.10 on the same machine is just too slow. I think I installed vmware-tools correctly. But I will keep on looking maybe there are few tweaks that may boost the speed of Ubuntu under VMWare. I'm kinda tired compiling everything in Gentoo specially the really big programs like OpenOffice. OpenOffice took me 2 days to compile.