open-vm-tools port
Josh Rickmar
joshua.rickmar at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 00:26:49 UTC 2008
It seems that the emulators/open-vm-tools is broken. After
deinstalling it and installing it again, whenever I run
'/usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd start' or reboot the virtual
machine, then there is an error about a missing
/usr/local/sbin/vmware-checkvm. I do have a vmware-checkvm, but it is
in /usr/local/bin/, so a 'ln -s /usr/local/bin/vmware-checkvm
/usr/local/sbin/vmware-checkvm' fixed the problem.
Also, the mouse is only able to seamlessly integrate with the host
machine when the vmmouse driver is used. When I had
emulators/vmware-tools6 installed, it would work even with the generic
mouse driver (which I would prefer to use).
Also, there seems to be some features of vmware-tools/open-vm-tools
missing. If I add a shared folder in VMware, then I am not able to
access it through /mnt/hgfs even after I run vmware-hgfsclient as
root. I am also not able to drag and drop files between the host and
guest machines, even though I am able to pass the mouse through each
seamlessly. (But I had these same problems when using
emulators/vmware-tools6...)
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