Verified vmware-tools-patches

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Just verified that installing vmware-tools-patches works on LEAP milestone 1 (and so hopefully should continue to work through official launch).

That leaves TW as the <only> openSUSE version at the moment that’s not supported (working on it).

For all versions of openSUSE except TW currently…
You can get additional features like shared folders and resolving any possible display issues by the following steps…

The main script below can be run “as is” for all tested distros running any aptitude, rpm or debian package management.

  1. Install git (this is the preferred method. Other methods are harder to keep up to date)
zypper in git

2a. If this is your very first time, clone (download) the vmware-tools-patched repo
From your chosen location (can be anywhere)

git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patched

2b. If you’ve already installed vmware-tools-patched before, then the following steps enable re-installation and upgrading the tools


cd *root of vmware-tools-patched repo *#You need start in the project root
rm -r vmware-tools-patched # This removes the previously downloaded files so you can download latest
git pull # This git command checks for and downloads the latest files from the github repo
  1. Although you can run any of the individual scripts on their own in special cases, the following is a “one click” solution that automatically checks for and downloads dependencies, downloads the current latest Tools from VMware and installs everything
./patched-open-vm-tools.sh

Shared Folders on VMware
After the above, if you’ve already configured Shared Folders in the Guest Options, you should be able to immediately browse to your shared folders at

ls /mnt/hgfs/

If you haven’t yet configured, then

  1. shutdown/power down your Guest so it isn’t running
  2. Open your Guest “Settings” to view things like your virtual hardware configuration (default tab)
  3. Click on the tab “Options”
  4. Select “Shared Folders” in the left pane
  5. Select the radio button “Always enabled” to enable Shared Folders
  6. Click “Add…” button
  7. Browse to the folder on the Host you wish to share and accept the default Shared Folder name (which will appear in the Guest) or change it.
  8. Click OK and boot the Guest. You should be able to see your Shared Folder in the location described above
ls /mnt/hgfs/

HTH,
TSU