VMware tools problems
Submitted by admin kbforge on July 20, 2007 - 3:09pm.
Hi, it appears the VMWare tools perl installation script needs two programs, df and du, which do not appear to work as expected in a Puppy Linux LivePC (they return insufficient space when there is plenty). The same script seems to depend on the existence of /etc/rc0-6.d directories, which are not present in Puppy Linux.
Can you suggest any way to overcome these problems so that I can get the mouse to move between host and guest?
Many thanks
VMware problems
Submitted by admin kbforge on July 22, 2007 - 1:50pm.
Thanks John, unfortunately it turned out to be not so simple. Although it was easy enough to change the perl script to eliminate the disk capacity check and to create empty rc0-6.d directories just to satisfy the script, (which then ran OK), I encountered unsurmountable (for me) problems trying to install Xorg. The system simply refuses to configure it, it just hangs forever, and I had to return to the alternative window system called Xvesa.
I suspect this is now a Puppy problem rather than a Moka5 or VMware problem.
Thanks all the same for your help.
Victor
Hi, I ran into the same
Hi,
I ran into the same problem for some other distros. The VMware Tools installation script does not run correctly on all distros. You can manually do the steps to install the tools. Copy the correct vmmouse driver from the extracted VMware tools directory into the appropriate place on the system and manually edit the xorg.conf (or XF86Config) file to change the mouse driver to "vmmouse". There are many copies of the driver so you will need to use the one that matches the version of XOrg or XFree86 on your system. You can do the same for the vmware video driver. Those two are the important ones so you can move the mouse in and out and resize the screen.
-John