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openindiana 151 + vmware tools?

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ripken204

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I am trying to to install vmware tools on OI 151, server version, but the OS is not being detected as a solaris OS.

in vsphere if i select my guest and install vmware tools, it thinks it's freebsd, and fails
if i dload the vsphere tools from the website and try to install, it thinks it's linux and fails

a few months ago I was able to install vmware tools, I was on the desktop version of OI 151...
any ideas?

i cant find the solaris tools online either
 
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I'm puzzled. I was running OI 151 and when I clicked on the mount vmware tools in vsphere client, and mounted the cdrom image, extracted the tarball, and ran the setup script it worked. Very weird!
 
ive been look for well over an hour... cant figure it out.
im installing the gui version now, maybe that will mount the solaris tools which i can then copy over to my server install

if that doesnt work, would you be willing to send me the solaris tools?

edit: fml... this vm was set as freebsd somehow... switching it to solaris should fix it
 
I had an issue last night trying to install the tools with the latest OI 151a server version. But my error was something with not finding xorg and would exit out. Not sure if anyone else experience this. I don't need the desktop version as I won't take advantage of the time slider.

I'll see if i can fire up a vm with the server version and post a screenshot.

Strange is that the tools installed fine in SXE11.
 
btw, I think I found the reason vmxnet3 sucks in solaris and drops connections.
 
Created a test vm and tried installing the tools. Below is the error I received.

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish
to enable this feature? [no]

svcprop: Couldn't find property group `options' for service `svc:/application/x11/x11-server'.


Detected XFree86 version 3.0.

Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XFree86-3/XF86_VMware to the destination
file /usr/X11/bin/XF86_VMware.

Execution aborted.

test@openindiana:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib#
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Any ideas?

Update:
Fixed the issue. I had to create the file /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XFree86-3/XF86_VMware and rerun /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
Still gave me an error about the display but the tools installed after creating the /etc/XF86Config file (which you do during the vmware-config-tools process).
 
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I'm writing to report that OpenIndiana server version (no-gui) 151a5 does not respond well to a VMWare tools installation despite using the file creation strategy mentioned by kidchunks. Execution still aborts.
 
Odd. I've installed two oa151-a5 servers VMs with the tools and it works fine. What specifically is failing and how?
 
danswartz said:
Odd. I've installed two oa151-a5 servers VMs with the tools and it works fine. What specifically is failing and how?
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I always ran into the above errors - I'm giving it a shot on the desktop build with X installed, as the server build comes with ~some~ of the bits but not all (and seems to confuse the hell out of the installer, that is really meant for solaris) - seems to be a few reports out there for this, and it really seems to depend on the packages you have installed (and what updates you've done) - some have had luck symlinking stuff around, but it's not really a common OS, so there haven't been a lot of official reports.
 
have you got vmnet3 working on this? i'm looking into setting OI as my nas
 
gigatexal said:
have you got vmnet3 working on this? i'm looking into setting OI as my nas
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I tried VMXNet3 on OmniOS recently and I didn't have stability issues, but it was slower than E1000. I'll use VMXNet3 for Windows/Linux, but I'm sticking with aggregating 2-4 E1000 channels for Solaris for my purposes. That way I can access it with both other VMs and also other physical machines without the other VMs taking away too much bandwidth from the physical NIC. However the testing I did was fairly quick so I'm only "fairly" confident in VMXNet3 being slower on OpenSolaris... definitely not 100% confident though.
 
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