[Grml] VMware tools on grml guest OS

[Michael Prokop]

* Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer at cgv.tugraz.at> [20070821 09:41]:

> I setup a grml 1.0 VMware server host system and a few grml 1.0 vmware
> guest systems til yet.
> But the time on the guest systems runs absolutely wrong,

Make sure you have read
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1420

> so I try to
> install the vmware-tools packages on the guests.
> I grabbed VMware workstation and grabbed VMwareTools-6.0.0-45731.tar.gz
> out of them.
> Now I try to install these tools on the guests systems with 2.6.20, but
> every kernel module fails to built.
> The any-any patch is just for the host, not for the guests.

> Anyone managed to built the vmware-tools kernel modules on grml 1.0 guests?

Did not try yet on my own - but did you take a look at the patches
from http://tuxx-home.at/archives/2007/06/29/T12_33_53/ and/or
http://www.astroarch.com/virtual/patches.html ?

regards,
-mika-
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