Author: Charl van Niekerk Language: text
Description: Installing VMware Tools 8.0.3 inside Oracle Solaris 11. Timestamp: 2012-11-02 04:36:02 -0400
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  1. root@solaris:~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl -d
  2. A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.
  3.  
  4. The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).
  5.  
  6. Keeping the tar4 installer database format.
  7.  
  8. You have a version of VMware Tools installed.  Continuing this install will
  9. first uninstall the currently installed version.  Do you wish to continue?
  10. (yes/no) [yes]
  11.  
  12. Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.
  13.  
  14. Stopping services for VMware Tools
  15.  
  16. Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
  17. Guest operating system daemon:                                         done
  18. Blocking file system:                                                  done
  19. Unmounting HGFS shares:                                                done
  20. Guest filesystem driver:                                               done
  21. Guest memory manager:                                                  done
  22.  
  23. File /etc/vmware-tools/vmware-user.desktop is backed up to
  24. /etc/vmware-tools/vmware-user.desktop.old.1.
  25.  
  26. Driver (vmxnet) not installed.
  27. Driver (vmhgfs) not installed.
  28. The removal of VMware Tools 8.8.2 build-590212 for Solaris completed
  29. successfully.
  30.  
  31. Installing VMware Tools.
  32.  
  33. In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
  34. [/usr/bin]
  35.  
  36. What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
  37. [/etc]
  38.  
  39. What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
  40. [/etc/init.d]
  41.  
  42. In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
  43. [/usr/sbin]
  44.  
  45. In which directory do you want to install the library files?
  46. [/usr/lib/vmware-tools]
  47.  
  48. The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is
  49. going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
  50. [yes]
  51.  
  52. In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
  53. [/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]
  54.  
  55. The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
  56. is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
  57. want? [yes]
  58.  
  59. The installation of VMware Tools 8.8.2 build-590212 for Solaris completed
  60. successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
  61. time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".
  62.  
  63. Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
  64. invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
  65. this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
  66.  
  67. Initializing...
  68.  
  69.  
  70. Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.
  71.  
  72. Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
  73. Guest operating system daemon:                                         done
  74. Blocking file system:                                                  done
  75. Unmounting HGFS shares:                                                done
  76. Guest filesystem driver:                                               done
  77. Guest memory manager:                                                  done
  78.  
  79.  
  80. The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
  81. and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish
  82. to enable this feature? [yes]
  83.  
  84.  
  85.  
  86. Detected X server version 1.12.2
  87.  
  88.  
  89.  
  90. Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
  91.  
  92. Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
  93.  
  94. Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
  95. Switching to guest configuration:                                      done
  96. Guest filesystem driver:                                               done
  97. Mounting HGFS shares:                                                  done
  98. Guest memory manager:                                                  done
  99. Blocking file system:                                                  done
  100. Guest operating system daemon:                                        failed
  101. Unable to start services for VMware Tools
  102.  
  103. Execution aborted.
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