Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release running in a CentOS5 guest VM? vmware-config-tools.pl goes through the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start up with the new configuration.
Les Mikesell wrote:
Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release running in a CentOS5 guest VM? vmware-config-tools.pl goes through the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start up with the new configuration.
Yup, had the same problem. The vmware-config-tools.pl fails to write a Monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I add the following to all of mine:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "vmware" VendorName "VMware, Inc" HorizSync 1-10000 VertRefresh 1-10000 EndSection
I got the above values from doing an X -configure in the VM. Unfortunately, *that* hangs the display and requires a restart. It also generates a massive number of unnecessary ModeLines. Just adding the above section to my VMs was my quickest solution.
Hope this helps, K^2
Ken Key wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release running in a CentOS5 guest VM? vmware-config-tools.pl goes through the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start up with the new configuration.
Yup, had the same problem. The vmware-config-tools.pl fails to write a Monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I add the following to all of mine:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "vmware" VendorName "VMware, Inc" HorizSync 1-10000 VertRefresh 1-10000 EndSection
I got the above values from doing an X -configure in the VM. Unfortunately, *that* hangs the display and requires a restart. It also generates a massive number of unnecessary ModeLines. Just adding the above section to my VMs was my quickest solution.
Hope this helps,
Either of you notice poor performance? My mouse is jumpy and freezes, especially when I try to resize a terminal window. The whole thing feels slugish. This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux or Ubuntu as a host. I'm sure other distros as hosts.
Paul Norton wrote:
Either of you notice poor performance? My mouse is jumpy and freezes, especially when I try to resize a terminal window. The whole thing feels slugish. This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux or Ubuntu as a host. I'm sure other distros as hosts.
I didn't noticed any sluggishness, but this was a quick graphical side project (a KDE kiosk) so I really don't have a good baseline to compare it with. I mainly use VMware Server with run-level 3 guests running tinderbox builds. I recently reinstalled the host OS to CentOS 5/VMware Server 1.03 and the builds are +/- 1min wall clock what they were.
Regards, K^2
Ken Key wrote:
Paul Norton wrote:
Either of you notice poor performance? My mouse is jumpy and freezes, especially when I try to resize a terminal window. The whole thing feels slugish. This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux or Ubuntu as a host. I'm sure other distros as hosts.
I didn't noticed any sluggishness, but this was a quick graphical side project (a KDE kiosk) so I really don't have a good baseline to compare it with. I mainly use VMware Server with run-level 3 guests running tinderbox builds. I recently reinstalled the host OS to CentOS 5/VMware Server 1.03 and the builds are +/- 1min wall clock what they were.
You don't have to use the vmware console. After you are up and running you can use ssh, vnc, an XDM login, or freenx just like you would for remote access to a physical machine.
Another option is to use the proprietary NX software from NoMachine. It's free as in beer, but not free as in freedom, or open source. The have made the server side free as in freedom and it is the basis of freenx. They did not make the client side free and you have to use their client with freenx, unless there is a newer free client I am unaware of.
The VMware console IS VERY sluggish even if you are on a local 10 Base T ethernet. But once I get a VM up and configured with the NoMachine NX client and server the response is tolerable for remote access over a pitiful 128K ISDN line. But getting a remote VM up and running can be very painful until you get things configured well enough to not need the VMware console anymore.
I wish VMware would license the NoMachine software and get the VMware console to be more responsive.
On 5/21/07, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Ken Key wrote:
Paul Norton wrote:
Either of you notice poor performance? My mouse is jumpy and freezes, especially when I try to resize a terminal window. The whole thing feels slugish. This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux or Ubuntu as a host. I'm sure other distros as hosts.
I didn't noticed any sluggishness, but this was a quick graphical side project (a KDE kiosk) so I really don't have a good baseline to compare it with. I mainly use VMware Server with run-level 3 guests running tinderbox builds. I recently reinstalled the host OS to CentOS 5/VMware Server 1.03 and the builds are +/- 1min wall clock what they were.
You don't have to use the vmware console. After you are up and running you can use ssh, vnc, an XDM login, or freenx just like you would for remote access to a physical machine.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Ken Key wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release running in a CentOS5 guest VM? vmware-config-tools.pl goes through the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start up with the new configuration.
Yup, had the same problem. The vmware-config-tools.pl fails to write a Monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I add the following to all of mine:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "vmware" VendorName "VMware, Inc" HorizSync 1-10000 VertRefresh 1-10000 EndSection
I got the above values from doing an X -configure in the VM. Unfortunately, *that* hangs the display and requires a restart. It also generates a massive number of unnecessary ModeLines. Just adding the above section to my VMs was my quickest solution.
Hope this helps,
Thanks - it works now, but it seems like I have to run vmware-toolbox inside the X session to make it release the mouse at the edge of the window without the ctl-alt keystroke. I didn't think earlier versions needed that, or started it automatically. Is something else missing?
On May 22, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Thanks - it works now, but it seems like I have to run vmware- toolbox inside the X session to make it release the mouse at the edge of the window without the ctl-alt keystroke. I didn't think earlier versions needed that, or started it automatically. Is something else missing?
Is the vmware-guest daemon running? You do not need to have the toolbox running for it to release the mouse and keyboard.
Sean Brown wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Thanks - it works now, but it seems like I have to run vmware-toolbox inside the X session to make it release the mouse at the edge of the window without the ctl-alt keystroke. I didn't think earlier versions needed that, or started it automatically. Is something else missing?
Is the vmware-guest daemon running? You do not need to have the toolbox running for it to release the mouse and keyboard.
I tried again with the x86_64 centos5 as both host and guest and have exactly the same problems. At startup it complained about /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0 which I fixed by symlinking to the system (32-bit) version. Then running /vmware-config-tools.pl in the guest fails to add a 'Monitor' section to xorg.conf, which I add by hand. Then an x session has vmware-guestd and vmware-user running but it won't release the mouse automatically unless I run vmware-toolbox inside the X session too. Should I install the any-any patches?
On 5/18/07, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release running in a CentOS5 guest VM? vmware-config-tools.pl goes through the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start up with the new configuration.
Do you have the vmware-any-any patch set from
I do not have this issue, but I have already installed the patches
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