Hello,
I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI samir.rhaoussi@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help?
You must run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl to complete the installation.
Jeff
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Jeff wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI samir.rhaoussi@gmail.comwrote:
I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help?
You must run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl to complete the installation.
VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can be written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list:
1. You have to run vmware-config-tools.pl from the console (typing in commands instead of copy&pasting them)
2. You cannot automate this process because of the above (even though we succeeded to fool vmware-config-tools.pl so it thinks it is run from a console, with some success)
3. vmware-config-tools.pl brings down the network, but it takes no action to bring it back up again (that's probably the reason for 1. and 2. but it is irritating)
4. vmare-config-tools.pl modifies modprobe.conf (some versions do it wrongly) and if you make changes to your modprobe.conf and then run vmware-config-tools.pl it will restore an old version, so you loose any changes you have made
5. There is no easy way to download the latest VMwareTools (with eg. updated kernel modules) from the VMware website
6. You have to extract VMwareTools from an ISO on an ESX (or from an RPM containing an ISO containing a tarball with the RPM iirc) because you cannot simply download it.
7. Different versions are not quite compatible, so you have to be careful running the correct VMwareTools version for the correct ESX server you are running. And VMwareTools does not check or escalate when your setup is wrong or unsupported
8. If you have netdump running, then running vmware-config-tools.pl forces you to unload netconsole.ko on the console, which is rather a RHEL bug, but it could at least work around it.
9. On all our systems we have been forced to pre-compile the modules because VMwareTools is lacking support for our kernels and we do not want to have a compiler and development packages on our servers.
If you have anything else, please add to this list :-)
The solution to some of the above could be to provide a kmod packages that includes the correct kernel modules for RHEL4 and RHEL5. But for a lot of problems above a rewrite of VMwareTools is needed.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Dag Wieersdag@centos.org wrote:
VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can be written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list:
open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking.
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/
Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008. I don't remember if he announced it at some point.
The last version there is dated Oct 2008. I tried to build the current version but encountered a (minor?) issue with one kernel module that was added recently. I then started working on the issue with Alan Bartlett. However, I halted the plan thinking this did not have a high demand and, therefore, cannot be given a high priority.
Akemi
open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking.
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/
Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008. I don't remember if he announced it at some point.
The last version there is dated Oct 2008. I tried to build the current version but encountered a (minor?) issue with one kernel module that was added recently. I then started working on the issue with Alan Bartlett. However, I halted the plan thinking this did not have a high demand and, therefore, cannot be given a high priority.
http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0/rhel5/
Vmware is providing current packages now... jlc
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:
Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!) And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution...
Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)
Hello,
I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help?
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thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment.
thanks for all of you for help :)
2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux bernard.lheureux@bbsoft4.org
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:
Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!) And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution...
Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote:
Don't forget that everytime you will upgrade your kernel or change kernel version, you will have to re-run this command to ensure the display and network settings, for the network if you don't do that you run in 100MBs mode but after the install of the VMware module in the kernel, you run at 1GB speed... Like Dag Wieers told a few minutes ago in this list, it is not the best way to work but with VMware it is like that it needs to be done...
thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment.
thanks for all of you for help :)
2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux <bernard.lheureux@bbsoft4.org mailto:bernard.lheureux@bbsoft4.org>
Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!) And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution... Voilà, Mr Génie Informatique ;-)
-- Samir RHAOUSSI ENIM 2009 - Génie Informatique
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