vmware
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Jan 23 19:18:18 UTC 2007
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
>>>
>>> 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/.
>
> He doesn't have vmware-config.pl anywhere. It was a TYPO. He meant
> mware-config-tools.pl. I think he has said that 3 times now in
> different ways.
Yeah, but his original complaint was about inability to find files in
/etc/vmware:
> The error message is "Unable to open the installer database
> /etc/vmware/locations in read-mode.".
vmware-config-tools.pl couldn't produce that error. So I wanted to know
if he's still got that problem.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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