How can I get VMware Tools to install correctly on a Linux Mint Sonya (18.2) guest? I'm having difficulty installing it:

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]0;root@Aqua-2 /home/me  [01;31mAqua-2 [01;34m me # [00m ./vmware-tools-distrib/ v

vgauth/ vmware-install.pl 

]0;root@Aqua-2 /home/me  [01;31mAqua-2 [01;34m me # [00m ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.

You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will

first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue?

(yes/no) [yes]

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Stopping services for VMware Tools

File /etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig is backed up to

/etc/vmware-caf/pme/config/cafenv-appconfig.old.0.

This program previously created the file /usr/bin/vmware-guestproxycerttool,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd, and was about to

remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd, and was

about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/statechange.subr,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/guestproxy-ssl.conf,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient, and was

about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs, and was

about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse, and was about to

remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /etc/vmware-tools/vmware-user.desktop,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file

/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network, and was about to remove it. Somebody

else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the file /sbin/mount.vmhgfs, and was about to

remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the directory /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware,

and was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

This program previously created the directory /etc/vmware-tools/scripts, and

was about to remove it. Somebody else apparently did it already.

File /etc/pulse/default.pa is backed up to /etc/pulse/default.pa.old.1.

The removal of VMware Tools 10.1.6 build-5214329 for Linux completed

successfully.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?

[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?

[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?

[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?

[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?

[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is

going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the common agent library files?

[/usr/lib]

In which directory do you want to install the common agent transient files?

[/var/lib]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?

[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program

is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you

want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 10.1.6 build-5214329 for Linux completed

successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any

time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by

invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want

this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...

Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.

The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer

or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer

or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS

and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish

to enable this feature? [yes]

The vmxnet driver is no longer supported on kernels 3.3 and greater. Please

upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. (e.g., vmxnet3 or e1000e)

The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a

Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you wish to enable this feature?

[yes]

VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of

VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. This feature can

be enabled/disabled by re-running vmware-config-tools.pl.

Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?

[yes]

Thinprint provides driver-free printing. Do you wish to enable this feature?

[yes]

Disabling timer-based audio scheduling in pulseaudio.

Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? Enabling vgauth is needed

if you want to enable Common Agent (caf). [yes]

Do you want to enable Common Agent (caf)? [yes]

CAF_LIB_DIR not found - @libDir@

Detected X server version 1.18.4

Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.

Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-53-generic

Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8

NOTE: both /etc/vmware-tools/GuestProxyData/server/key.pem and

  /etc/vmware-tools/GuestProxyData/server/cert.pem already exist.

  They are not generated again. To regenerate them by force,

  use the "vmware-guestproxycerttool -g -f" command.

Job for vmware-tools.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status vmware-tools.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Unable to start services for VMware Tools

Execution aborted.

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Script done on Sat 11 Nov 2017 10:24:30 AM CST

Is there any advantage to keeping the native open-vm-tools that come bundled with CentOS 6.6 and 7.0, versus removing them and replacing them with the VMware Tools that can be installed through vCenter?

Guests are running on an ESXi 5.5 U2 host, managed by vCenter 5.5.

I have a Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya) guest installation with VMware Tools installed with reported success, but it is not doing one thing I expected of VMware Tools: resize the display when its window changes, or when it enters fullscreen.

Since I've installed VMware Tools, the one and only way I have found to trigger a change of resolution is to check another option from the dropdown list of screen resolutions under Preferences > Display. (That list does not include my monitor size.)

What, if anything, can I do to get the guest to automaticallly resize

Hi all!

My the most important question -- is whether VMware Co will refuse me in the official technical support if on the RHEL/CentOS 6.x guest OS I will have open-vm-tools installed from the EPEL repository, rather than native vmware-tools.

Very thanks for the support.

Hey guys,

I have problem with installation vmware tools. I use -> manage -> install tools it shows a cd-room - vmware tools, but that folder is empty... I couldnt install it.

I'm getting alerts from the Windows OS that memory is 90% utilized.  However the "usage %" in vROps and vCenter performance charts never goes above 50%.  There is no memory swapping happening either.   Why is the OS reporting it is out of RAM when vCenter thinks the VM is only using 55%?

Dear All

                                        Anyone know how to enable audio device in window server 2012 R2, and this is from vm, and i'm using Esxi 5.5, any help would be appreicated,

desktop experience feature already installed, vmware tools installed, any idea ?

Bonjour Team,

Bon debut de semaine a tous. J'aurais besoin de votre avis sil vous plait. Je reçois l'erreur ci-dessous a multiple reprise sur une VM. J'ai procédé a la verification si des snapshots non supprime existe mais non.

[NimSoft] [NOT_CLEARED] [MINOR] [vmware] [8/5/17 13:42:47]

    [VMware - The monitor PCBELEPPRVOAD01.SnapshotCount on PCBELEPPRIVC01:443 is outside expected limits (2 > 1)]

I run the below script and the output is zero for all VMs. Any one experienced this issue before?

Get-VM | Format-Table Name, @{Label="NumSnapshots";Expression={(Get-Snapshot -VM $_| Measure-Object).Count}}, @{Label="TotalSnapShotSizeMB";Expression={(Get-Snapshot -VM $_| Measure-Object -Sum SizeMB).Sum}}

Will really appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

Installed recent VMPlayer (14.0.0 build-6661328) on Linux Mint 18.2, and then created new Windows 10 VM with it. Everything went fine, but it didn't show up in the VMPlayer when I started it.

Tried to run it with "open a virtual machine", but once i have browsed the VM it still won't launch. When i enter my systems screen, and start it with command vmplayer <path to Windows10>.vmx, it works absolutely fine. Naturally i can't change any configuration on running VM, and every other relatives refuse to even think about starting anything through screen.

Is that some kind of issue with permissions, or what is going on?

Hi,

We are running Vcenter 6.0 on EXSi 6.0 Host, We are using NetApp to manage the data stores. I have created a datastore volume of 32TB and would like to assign it to one of the VMs, when i go to Vcenter webclient or even to the EXSi host which has the VM to add a Hard disk on that VM through VM settings, it is not letting me create a disk larger than 15.81 TB. can someone please provide some guidance.

Thanks

bonjour

ja'i mis a jour mon imac en version 10,13,1 mac OS High Sierra

cependant quand j'ai utilisé vmwre fusion 7 ,que j'avais (avec windows 8.1) impossible de démarrer. donc j'ai décider d'acheter vmware fusion 10 qui fonctionne avec high sierra.

mais maintenant impossible de monter l'ordinateur virtuel

l'ancien windows 8,1 déja en place il me met une phrase "Impossible de trouver un processus pair valide auquel se connecter"

alors j'installe un nouvelle ordinateur virtuelle et toujours la meme phrase, il ne lance meme pas l'installation de l'os windows 8.1, au moment de démarrer il me met cette phrase "Impossible de trouver un processus pair valide auquel se connecter"

svp help j'ai besoin de mon windows pour l'utilisation de microsoft access

Hi Community,

I would like to run some old Microsoft software  XP or earlier  on a virtual machine on my laptop Compaq PresarioCQ62. Does anyone have a recommendation or valuable experience, They could give? The PLC software I've got doesn't run on windows 7 or linux ubuntu

drewlep

Message was edited by: Andrew Lepinath

I'm using Vmware Workstation 14 on an Ubuntu 17.10 host. I need to tweak my memory settings in VMware. but when I try, the screen is grayed out and says ...

"You must be running Workstation as root to change these settings."

When I try to run it as root, using either

     $ sudo vmware

or

     $ su -

     Password: <enter password>

     # vmware

I get this error...

"pblanton@GortRover:~$ su -

Password:

root@GortRover:~# vmware

No protocol specified

xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

No protocol specified

xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

No protocol specified

** (vmware-modconfig:4255): WARNING **: Could not open X display

No protocol specified

(vmware-modconfig:4255): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0"

Runnig VMWare as a regular user (not root) works fine, but I just can't change the memory settings.

Any ideas?

I installed from the bundle file (VMware-Workstation-Full-14.0.0-6661328.x86_64.bundle) on Ubuntu 17.10.

When it got to the point where it asked me about the license key, I skipped it, because it said I could do it later.

After the instllation finished, when I ran VMWare for the first time, it asked me for the license key so I entered it, but it gave me the following error...

"Failed to run /usr/lib/vmware/bin/licenseTool 'enter' '5M221-2K300-H8J93-0KAUP-3TD50' '' '' '14.0' 'VMware Workstation' '/usr/lib/vmware' as user root."

I checked the KB and found an article that was just what I was looking for...

VMware Knowledge Base

But when I sudo ran the suggested command, then this error occurred...

"No protocol specified

xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

No protocol specified

xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

[AppLoader] Use shipped Linux kernel AIO access library.

An up-to-date "libaio" or "libaio1" package from your system is preferred.

No protocol specified

** (vmware-enter-serial:766): WARNING **: Could not open X display

No protocol specified

(vmware-enter-serial:766): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0"

As a punt, I uninstalled the bundle file, and re-ran the installer. This time, I entered the license key when the installer asked me for it. The installation finished without any errors, then prompted me for the license key again when I started it up for the first time. It still fails when I enter it. :-(

Any ideas?

Hi,

I noticed that there is a setting on a VM's NetworkAdaptor called allowGuestControl. https://code.vmware.com/doc/preview?id=4206#/doc/vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceOption.ConnectOption.html#allowGuestControl

I found that it should work by using the VMwareToolboxCmd.exe command in VMware Tools according to the manual: https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-tools-cli.pdf

But when I use the "VMwareToolboxCmd.exe device list" command nothing lists, so I cannot find the connecd for connecting the NIC from within the Guest.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Best Regards

Brian.

I need to run a 32-Bit virtual Machine on a 64-bit Host. Is there a VMware virtual machine that does this? (VMware player) I down loaded player 12 but wouldn't run the 32-bit software. Went back and checked what I had down loaded and it was 64 bit machine. So, is it possible for a 32-bit Virtual Machine to run on 64-bit host. The Software is Mitsubishi Electric, Visual Logic Software, Ver 2.60.

programming software for alpha & alpha2 series controller. I've signed up with Mitsubishi Electric and downloaded the software but its missing some of options that are loaded from the CD.

Drewlep

I am looking for any way to modify the buffer size of the VMware Virtual Audio (DevTap) driver. Our call center is experiencing latency that creates a walkie-talkie effect when conversating. We are using HP t630 thin clients with Horizon Client 4.6 installed. See the VMWare View version and thin client model below.

The conversion taking place specifically between the View environment and the Thin pro (redirecting sound through RTAV) and the VMware Virtual Audio (DevTap) driver is adding 600ms+ Latency to audio.

I have tried different vmx file changes (play.buffersize = “##” pcisound.playbuffer = “##” etc.) but only notice a difference with Analog headsets. Even with the analog headset, it appears I can only make changes that increase the buffer size and add latency. Third party call center software has been eliminated as the cause of the latency and I need to find out an alternative RTAV driver or a way to modify the buffer size of the VMware Virtual Audio drivers. I have attempted setting the devices to High Definition Audio or the ES1371 but have not been able to get sound out of these.

The latency is eliminated using USB passthrough but the quality is choppy and unclear. If someone knows of a way to add buffer to USB passthrough or increase the quality there that would also be an option.

Help is greatly appreciated!

Thin Client Information

HP t630 thin client

OS: ThinPro 6.2.0

BIOS: M40 v01.03

VMWare Information

VDI software: VMware Horizon 6.2

Blade OS: VMware ESX 5.5

Production VDI Hardware:  3x HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 (24 CPUs - Xeon E5-2690 v3 @ 2.6GHz, 512GB Memory)

VDI client hardware: HP t630 thin client 8GB memory

# of VMs and templates on VDI ESX hosts: 371

# of active VDI sessions daily: 110

It shows this error

Failed to attach the USB device Ralink 802.11 n WLAN [0101] to the virtual machine Kali-Linux-2017.3-vbox-amd64.

USB device 'Ralink 802.11 n WLAN' with UUID {f117a7bf-d636-4225-90d2-d827f86fa553} is busy with a previous request. Please try again later.

Pls Somebody help.

Hi. I have been using VMPlayer which runs as a guest Linux OS on Windows 10 for quite a while.
I applied some Windows updates a couple of days ago which included the new Creator version. Yesterday
when I started my VMPlayer VM machine  I received the error as noted above as subject. Somehow I think
the Ethernet adapter settings were changed.  I searched the web and found some hits on this which included
step by step instructions on how to install  the service - VMware Bridge Protocol under Settings, Network & Internet,
Ethernet. The steps are straightforward and I'm sure I didn't make a mistake. I then stopped and restarted the
VMware  NAT and DHCP  services. I then rebooted my laptop. I received the same error when I started my VMPlayer VM machine.

I don't have Workstation installed. Basically I'm accessing a Teradata database which runs on a VM guest Linux machine
under VMPlayer.

I'm hoping some VMware users may have seen this issue and may provide me with some advice.. stuck now and
not sure how to proceed with this issue.

I am greatly hoping that I do not have to reinstall VMware since for me that will result in a massive amount of work.

thanks

my env.

EDITION - WINDOWS 10 PRO

VERSION - 1703

BUILD   - 15063.403

VMPlayer - version 6.0.7 

thanks

me

WINDOWS 10, V1709  - 64 BIT - Dell laptop

VMPlayer - 6.0.7

I've been wrestling with an issue for a couple of days...upgraded Windows 10 to 1709 and lost my eth0 connection... After a few

tries to reestablish the connection, it magically came back after my latest reboot. However, wouldn't you know it... I'm now getting a different msg.
showing up during the startup, in the section SETTING UP (localfs) NETWORK INTERFACES...

it shows up immediately following the eth0 connection being made...
and is as follows  'waiting for mandatory devices - eth1' .
I have no idea what this means since I have never seen it before, but I do know, I am functional once
again since the issue with eth0 apparently has been resolved... However I'd like to resolve this error msg.

Anyone have any ideas ?  Bear in mind I am a network rookie.....  thanks