Install VMware Tools OpenSolaris 0906

[motsteve]

Is there more to Virtual Machine > Install Vmware tools menu pick to get the installation of the VMware tools to occur in Fusion 2.04? Nothing seems to happen when I do the menu pick. When I go back to the menu pick it reads "Cancel the VMTools Installation?".

[motsteve]

The reason it didn't install is because the CD/DVD wasn't in Autodetect mode. I stopped the VM, went to the settings menu and selected the CD/DVD resource and set it to autodetect.

Trying to run the vmware-install.pl script, it aborted. It couldn't copy some of the tools over. Below is the output and the commands I used to troubleshoot the problem:

Detected X.org version 7.4.3.

Unable to copy the source file
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so to the destination
file /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so.

Execution aborted.

~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib root # ls -l /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/vmware_drv.so: No such file or directory

~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib root # ls -l /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/7.4/: No such file or directory

~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib root # ls -l /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Jun 4 05:02 6.8.x
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Jun 4 05:02 7.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Jun 4 05:02 7.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Jun 4 05:02 7.1_64

Obviously the 7.4 subdirectory doesn't exist. Looks like the script needs a mod. The question also is, why did the script detect Xorg version 7.4 to begin with.

[motsteve]

Is there somewhere I can go to get at least an experimental version of the vmware-tools-distrib tar ball with the 7.4 version drivers in it, so I can at least find out where the .pl script hangs up next? Hell! Give me a manual work around as I don't mind doing some typing and I'll share the results so that someone can see the progress being made on the new version of tools.