VMware Tools on TCL? :S

[PapaGigas]

I've installed TCL on VMware player, but I wasn't able to install VMware Tools on it... can anyone explain me the procedures on how to do it? tks in advanced...

[beerstein]

Hi:
What are these Tools good for?
Which TCL version are you using?
Is there a reason that you use VM instead of Oracle's VIrtual Box?

[PapaGigas]

What are these Tools good for?
Which TCL version are you using?
Is there a reason that you use VM instead of Oracle's VIrtual Box?

 - Shared folders; Mouse&Keyboard Integration; etc...

 - Current (4.5.3)

 - I use both... but I was trying VMware first... for no special reason!


PS - Do you know how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on TCL?

[gutmensch]

It's probably possible but not very straightforward...

1. You need the Xorg-7.6.tcz for visual aspects (mouse and video integration)
2. When you click in VMWare Workstation "Install VMWare Tools" he will map the Linux tools iso (from your VMware installation) as a cdrom drive in the virtual machine. And then you will have to mount the drive yourself

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$ sudo mkdir /mnt/temp
$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/temp
3. Copy the installer to some place on a hard drive (because it is not small , e.g.

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$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sda1/temp/
$ sudo cp /mnt/temp/*.tar.gz /mnt/sda1/temp/
$ sudo umount /mnt/temp
4. Install extensions to build the tools. From what I remember, you will at least need

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$ tce-load -wi compiletc perl5 linux-headers-$(uname -r) findutils
5. Put a marker to find the files the installer is creating anywhere, extract installer and run it

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$ cd /mnt/sda1/temp/ && chown tc *.tar.gz
$ tar xzf *.tar.gz
$ cd vmware-tools-distrib
$ touch /tmp/beforeinstall
$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
6. ...this is the moment where the real problems begin and you might encounter dependency or other problems...
(if however the installer ran correctly, then find the new installed files and pack them)

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$ sudo find / -newer /tmp/beforeinstall -not -type d \( -wholename "/usr/*" -o -wholename "/var/*" -o -wholename "/etc/*" -o -wholename "/lib/*" \) > /tmp/list
$ tar -T /tmp/list -czvf /tmp/tools_install.tar.gz

out of this archive you can create your own extension mentioned in the wiki. The VirtualBox additions for the Open Source Edition are already available as extensions...

[PapaGigas]

The VirtualBox additions for the Open Source Edition are already available as extensions...

Tks a lot... I'll test it ASAP! ;0)

[ EDIT ]

I've installed "Xorg-7.6.tcz" and "virtualbox-ose-additions.tcz"... but it isn't working... what am I missing or doing wrong?

PS - I've copied "xorg.conf.example" to "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"... changed the keyboard layout to "pt"... and added it to "/opt/.filetool.lst"... and the keyboard it's working... but if I try to change the screen resolution... X doesn't start!

[beerstein]

Hi: I have Virtual Box running in Ubuntu 11.04. TinyCore 4.5.2 and CorePlus 3.5.2 are running as
VB machines. Everything works fine - such as networking (with the host and the net)
I still do not know how to access an USB stick on the host? And how to transfer files from a host folder
to /home/tc/ at the TCL machine. Virtual Box is stable - a few days a new version 4.1.16... came out.
Any ideas?

[PapaGigas]

Any ideas?

You'll need the VirtualBox Additions to work... which is exactly my problem at the moment!