I am experiencing difficulty installing VMWare tools for an OpenSuse
virtual machine which I created. I have the following packages installed
on that vm image (which I believe are required to install tools):
kernel-source, binutils, make, gcc and gcc-c++.
Now, I have been following the directions on this page - ‘Setting up
SUSE Linux as a VMware Guest - openSUSE’
(http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_SUSE_Linux_as_a_VMware_Guest)
There is a line on that page which says - -3. Do not use the RPM
package to install VMware tools, the package contains dependencies to
kernel modules which will overwrite your currently installed kernel.
-Unfortunately, I got a bit ahead of myself, read that too late and
made the mistake of using that package.
I think this has made some kind of change to my currently installed
module, because, when I proceeded with the rest of the instructions, it
did not work. When I entered -. vmware-install.pl -at the shell, I got
the following error:> linux-mg0y:/tmp/VMwareTools/vmware-tools-distrib # . vmware-install.pl
> -bash: use: command not found
> -bash: use: command not found
> -bash: my: command not found
> -bash: my: command not found
> -bash: vmware-install.pl: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token
> `(’
-bash: vmware-install.pl: line 20: `my @cKernelModules = qw(vmblock
> vmdesched vmhgfs vmmemctl vmxnet vmci vmmon vmnet);’
> From here, I am seeking assistance.
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BOX: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz | NVidia GeForce 9600 GT |
Gigibyte GA-EP45-DSR3 | RAM 4Gb DDR 2 | OS 11.1 | KDE 4.1.3
You’re close… You need to run the command with the period and forward
slash, ./
So, run the command as root like this:
./vmware-install.pl
Some of the software below you already installed. Perhaps try
installing whatever is on the list that you don’t already have:
glibc-devel
findutils-locate
gcc
flex
lynx
compat-readline4
gcc-c++
make
kernel-source
When installing the VMware Tools you may see something like “Your
kernel was built with gcc version 4.3.1, while you are trying to use
/usr/bin/gcc version 4.3. This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Server may crash if you’ll continue. Please try to use exactly
same compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go
with compiler “/usr/bin/gcc” version 4.3 anyway? [no]”. If you see that
I think you can be allright by typing “yes” and pressing Enter.
Thanks. Now, I made sure that all of those packages were installed. Then
I ran the installation script with the correct command. It resulted in
the following error:
> linux-mg0y:/tmp/VMwareTools/vmware-tools-distrib # ./vmware-install.pl
> The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that
> were
> not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run
> this
> installer again.
>
> vmci
> vmhgfs
> vmmemctl
> vmxnet
> vmblock
>
> Execution aborted.
>
Is the next step to remove those using YAST, and then run the script
again?
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BOX: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz | NVidia GeForce 9600 GT |
Gigibyte GA-EP45-DSR3 | RAM 4Gb DDR 2 | OS 11.1 | KDE 4.1.3
I don’t have an answer. But look at the following two links. The first
link see the section "4 Fixing “The following VMware kernal modules have
been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware
installer.”