vmware

[Kam Leo]

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.

> --
>                 Matthew Saltzman