On 22/03/2010 21:54, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Dick Visser wrote: >> I just installed Beta1 server i386, which is the first one to actually >> boot. Host is vmware WS 7.0.1 on windows 7 64. > ... >> Installing only open-vm-tools seems to be pulling in all the X stuff, >> which I don't want. >> >> Just for my understanding - I should install 'open-vm-tools' for a >> headless VM, and 'open-vm-toolbox' for a GUI system. Right? Or am I >> missing something? > > I think that's right. I'm also having some trouble on an ESXi host > with the vmxnet module. I also rebuilt the lucid vm (using kickstart btw) > and only installed open-vm-dkms with no more luck. The net seems > up but I'm not getting DNS resolution. > > Next would probably be to build from source.
I managed to get things going last week. The trick was to use --no-install-recommends: https://confluence.terena.org/display/~visser/open-vm-tools+in+Ubuntu+Lucid -Dick
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