[clue-tech] JeOS (ubuntu 8.04) VMware Tools

[mike havlicek]

Thanks!

Clearly and distinctly seeing the distinction between attaching the drive and mounting the media made a BIG difference :)

-Mike




--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Charles Hutchinson <chutchin at geekboi.org> wrote:

> From: Charles Hutchinson <chutchin at geekboi.org>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] JeOS (ubuntu 8.04) VMware Tools
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 10:55 AM
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM,
> mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I just started playing with VMware ESX 3i and did a basic
> set up of several JeOS 8.04 virtual machines. I am a little
> confused about the process of installing VMware Tools. This
> is a demo version of the Hypervisor/Infrastructure Client.
> From the client I have been trying to
> 
> 
> install the tools in a simple point and click fashion, but
> I am not sure what needs to be present (VMware Tools CD?).
> All I have so far is the
> 
> VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD custom IBM. I did have some
> trouble with getting
> 
> the virtual machines to boot off their respective
> installation CD's finally setting the CD/DVD drive to be
> client/emulate IDE  ... blah blah.
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone know what iso image(s) need to be available where
> when the VMware
> 
> Tools installation is triggered? In my hasty running around
> with CD's and host and client CD drives, Tools were
> successfully installed for Windows
> 
> Server 2003 using the point and click from client, but I
> don't know where
> 
> what was loaded from (probably no CD even involved) ....
> hastiness....
> 
> 
> 
> When I created the initial linux virtual machines I used
> typical settings for an ubuntu 32-bit guest. I suppose the
> tools could be installed using an
> 
> iso loaded from the client machines disk, but again I
> don't know what needs to be in place where. I see that
> there is an alternative method
> 
> "using OSPs" the documentation for which I have
> not read. Maybe this is
> 
> what I will have to do. OR is not having to do this the
> point of JeOS :)
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> There are multiple steps to installing the tools for
> vmware.  The first thing you need to do is tell vmware that
> you want to install the tools.  The method varies with the
> version of vmware you are running.  From the console of the
> guest you should see a menu option for install/upgrade
> tools.  When you click on this vmware will set the cdrom
> device for that guest to point to an iso image on the vmware
> server.  
> 
> 
> Once that is done you can go into the guest os to do the
> actual install.  Mount the "CD" drive in the
> OS.  Do this from the console as it will most likely need
> to restart the network services and reload the network
> drivers.  Depending on what package manager your guest uses
> you can just do an rpm -Uvh
> /media/cdrom/vmware-tools*.rpm.  For non rpm systems you
> will need to extract the tar.gz file and run the install
> script from there.  You will need to extract it to another
> directory as the CD images is of course read only.  Unmount
> the CD as soon as you have  installed the rpm or extracted
> the tarball.  If you do not the console will get error
> messages writen to it every couple of seconds.
> 
> 
> Charlie
> 
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