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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #727342
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 727342

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Ok, a few observations now that I'm able to test on vmware:

I've created a new package based on the 3.28 release (from two days ago). What I did:

   1. run vmware-uninstall-tools
       (@Tom Weiss - you need to do this first, that's why you got the errors about vmhgfs and vmsync not being found. I get that even when I install the current open-vm-tools package)
   2. dpkg -i open-vm-source_* open-vm-toolbox* open-vm-tools_*
   3. dpkg -i open-vm-dkms*
   4. reboot

At this point, clipboard did not work for me. I had to manually

   5. vmware-user-suid-wrapper

after which clipboard worked. This however did complain because vmblock was not loaded. I see bug 332323, so figure I'll fix this in vmware-user-suid-wrapper, but for now I just did:

   5a. modprobe vmblock
   5b vmware-user-suid-wrapper

vmware-user-suid-wrapper is not actually installed setuid-root, I'll fix that. WHen I fix that on the guest, then drag and drop start working!

I suppose the packaging should somehow run vmware-user-suid-wrapper on login. How to do that may be question for desktop folks.

The vmhgfs does not work for me. I don't know if that's depracated.