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VMWare Tools in Fusion Beta3 running n64a

Monday Jun 11, 2007

A guy I work with sent me this. He has not posted it yet and I am stealing his thunder because it needs to get on-line. You MUST get the tools installed in order to make your Mac usable with Solaris up.

Get through the initial install with a 32bit VM, shutdown the VM and open the .vmx file four your VM. Change the line that looks like this:
guestOS = "solaris10"

With this:
guestOS = "solaris10-64"

Add the following line to the .vmx file to get an e1000 adapter:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Start the VM. Login as root.

Mount the tools vmware iso to your vm (Virtual Machine... Install VMware tools).

You may want to enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ("PermitRootLogin yes") or create another login in case you can't get back in through the graphical console after these steps. I also tarred up /etc/X11 and /usr/X11/lib, but never used these backups.

Copy and untar the vmware tools onto the root desktop.

cd to /Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg
copy "7.0" to "7.1" (cp -r 7.0 7.1)
cd 7.1
cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so .

Go thorough the normal VMware tools install process:
cd /Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

IMPORTANT: Delete or move aside the generated /etc/xorg.conf. It is broken somehow anyway. The tools install will have installed the optimized network adapter and the vmware daemon processes, including the one that should allows your mouse to move off the VM screen w/o the special key sequence.

You need to log out and back in at this point to check you display and mouse configuration.

If you initially installed on a 32 bit VM, you need to initialize your e1000 network adapter under "Administration", "Network". Select the e1000 adapter. select properties. Select "Enable this connection" and "Activate on boot", set the configuration for your environment, typically "DHCP". Select "OK". Make the e1000g0 the default gateway device on the dropdown box at the bottom of the dialog. Click "Activate" to activate the adapter. Select "OK".

At this point, nslookup may work, but name resolution for ping or web browsing may not. If so, reboot. (Something else may clear this up without a reboot, but I don't know what. The /etc/resolve.conf file looked fine to me when I had this problem.)