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Installing VMware Tools with Solaris Nevada Build 64a

June 18th, 2007 by Lou

One of the recent Nevada builds introduces xorg 7.2 which breaks the VMware tools installation. Use these instructions to work around the issue.

You may want to enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (”PermitRootLogin yes”) or create another login via in case you can’t get back in through the graphical console after these steps. You may also wish to tar up /etc/X11 and /usr/X11/lib just in case.

These instructions create a kludge for the VMware tools install:

  • Copy and untar the vmware tools onto the root desktop.
  • cd to /Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg
  • copy “7.0″ to “7.1″ (cp -r 7.0 7.1)
  • cd 7.1 (step not required)
  • cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so . (step not required)

Go thorough the normal VMware tools install process:

  • cd /Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib
  • ./vmware-install.pl
  • At the prompt “What is the location of the directory which contains your XOrg modules?” answer /usr/lib/X11/modules

IMPORTANT: Delete or move aside the generated /etc/xorg.conf. YAGNI and it is broken somehow anyway. The tools install will have installed the optimized network adapter and the VMware daemon processes, including the one that should allows your mouse to move off the VM screen w/o the special key sequence.

You need to log out and back in at this point to check you display and mouse configuration.

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5 Responses to “Installing VMware Tools with Solaris Nevada Build 64a”

  1. on 18 Jun 2007 at 5:11 pm   Lou

    cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so . is not required and will cause a problem for non-Core2 Duo processors. Thanks to IscariotJ on the VMware forum for this.

  2. on 07 Aug 2007 at 4:56 pm   Inchoate Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Nevada and Fusion: No Hack Required

    […] The production release of VMware Fusion 1.0 released yesterday resolves the issues with the VMware tools install inter-operation with xorg 7.2 distributed with current versions of Nevada.  I’ve tested the tools install with Fusion 1.0 (51348) and Solaris Nevada build 69 (SunOS solaris-devx 5.11 snv_69 i86pc i386 i86pc). fusion, nevada, solaris, xorg […]

  3. on 28 Aug 2007 at 1:55 am   Anonymous

    Thanks for the writeup, I was running into this and stumbled across your help. Tools are installed now, thanks for the help!

  4. on 27 Sep 2007 at 2:13 pm   Alex

    With the latest Workstation, I follow this advice and everything looks like it’s going to work, but X crashes with a “no core pointer” error (unable to find the mouse). I have no idea why. I’m running it in 64bit mode, but using the 64bit VMware tools set (as I selected Solaris 10 x64 as my OS type in VMware).

    What’s up?

  5. on 27 Sep 2007 at 2:47 pm   Alex

    Ah - fixed my own problem. A new patch from Sun includes a new vmmouse_drv.so and amd64 avmmouse_drv.so which can be copied over to their respective directories after completing the vmware tools config script.

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