Hello, I'll try to reply to the best of my knowledge, but I'm not very familiar with the Ubuntu-packaged version of open-vm-tools.
Quick X wrote: > I'm running a Kubuntu 8.10 guest host and the Offical VMWare tools had some > complation errors (vsock with kernel heads, and unsupported video driver). Which VMware product and version are you using? Just to make sure, because I think we have fixed all these (but they may have not made it into an official VMware release yet). The latest open-vm-tools package definitely compiles on 8.10. > Question 1: How do I tell which ones are running and which arn't? I tried > "lsmod | grep vm" and nothing shows up. Even if I run "sudo vmware-toolbox" > and the window is up, there is nothing displayed with a "lsmod | grep vm". There are two parts to the VMware Tools: . user level components; these are "vmware-guestd" and "vmware-user", and you should be able to see them in the output of "ps -ax". . kernel modules; these would show up in the output of "lsmod | grep vm". If you're not seeing them, then probably the Ubuntu package you installed doesn't include them. That being said, there's a known bug with the auto-start of the vmware-user component on Ubuntu 8.10. The latest open-vm-tools release fixes that, but I don't think the Ubuntu packages are that up-to-date. The next maintenance release of current VMware Workstation and Fusion will also include the fix. > Question 2: I didn't have any config or settings to supply with the Update > Manager version, is this normal? The offical VMWare tools install asked a > bunch of questions about resolution and such. That's OK, the questions asked by the Tools install script are just configuration questions for your X server, which distros handle in a different way. > Question 3: There is no "vmware-config.sh" file I can see anywhere. Is there > any other setup/config I have to do when installing with the Adept Update > Manager? Does the Update Manager automatically auto-start the moduals (aka > even if I restart the guest host the mouse still works fine). I don't know about the kernel modules (depends on how the distro packages them, I guess), but the problem you're seeing seems to be related to the vmware-user autostart problem I mentioned above. > Question 4: Lastly is there anything different with the Kubuntu Update > Manager VMware tools vs open-vmware-tools? Are some moduals left out? They're based on the open-vm-tools code from Sourceforge, but I don't really know if they ship all the modules. If you're curious you could run "dpkg -L <packagename>" to see what files it includes. I couldn't find any Tools-related packages in my Hardy VM (I even added a bunch of extra repositories to the sources), nor could I find more information on Ubuntu's package search, so sorry if I can't be of more help. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
