Hi,
we have an ESXi Server, just upgraded from ESXi 4.1u1 to 5.0.
There is an Linux VM running but I cannot install VMWare Tools on it (this wasn't even possible with 4.1U1 and the same error is now on 5.0).
It's (AFAIK) an older Ubuntu 32 Bit machine, "uname -a" gives "Linux xxx 2.6.15-28-server #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 21:09:03 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux".
There's no X installed, shell only, updating Linux is not an option.
When running the tar.gz installer it's running for some time, but when running "vmware-config-tools.pl" it stop's with the error "Could not find Parent Node...".
The last output of the script is
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make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD\. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
make[1]: 'postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
cp -f vmblock.ko ./../vmblock.o
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmblock-only'
No X install found.
Could not find Parent Node...
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On ESX 3.5 there was no error installing VMWare Tools.
We were running the machine on ESXi4.1U1 with the ESX3.5 MWare tools, but now I lost the network connections after a reboot (I think because the old VMWare tools are uninstalled).
Any ideas how I can get the new VMWare tools installed?
Thanks & Ciao,
Alfred Schwarz