vmware

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:

> On 1/22/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
>> 
>> >> > The situation is as follows:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1)  I have VMware Workstation 5.5.3 installed on a Windows 2000 host.
>> >> > 2)  FC6 is a guest VM.
>> >> > 3)  I'm trying to configure VMware Tools on the guest VM (FC6) for the
>> >> > 2.6.19 kernel.
>> >> > 4)  vmware-config.pl is a script which is included with VMware Tools,
>> >> > a utility provided with VMware Workstation.  VMware Tools is packaged
>> >> > both in rpm and tar formats.
>> >>
>> >> it's called 'vmware-config-tools.pl' actually
>> >
>> > Thanks. You're correct. I may be getting into a bad habit of relying
>> > on bash's tab-completion feature and in the process overlooking the
>> > entire command.
>> 
>> In fact, you shouldn't have vmware-config.pl anywhere on a guest unless
>> you are planning to run a nested guest (which may not even be possible).
>> 
>> If you installed the VMwareWorkstation RPM in your guest, you should
>> remove it.
>
> Why? I might really be testing deep virtualization.
>
> Seriously, sloppyness on my part created an erroneous reference to
> vmware-config.pl. I should have referenced vmware-config-tools.pl.

So, seriously, is your problem now solved?

vmware-config-tools.pl refers to /etc/vmware-tools/.  vmware-config.pl 
refers to /etc/vmware/.  Normally, a Linux host would have the former and 
a Linux guest would have the latter, and not vice versa.  So it still 
seems odd that you were running vmware-config.pl in a Linux guest and 
getting any outcome other than "command not found" (unless, as you 
say...).  And it still seems odd that you would have vmware-config.pl 
anywhere and be missing /etc/vmware/.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs