Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote: > >> On 1/22/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Kam Leo wrote: >>> >>> >> > The situation is as follows: >>> >> > >>> >> > 1) I have VMware Workstation 5.5.3 installed on a Windows 2000 >>> host. >>> >> > 2) FC6 is a guest VM. >>> >> > 3) I'm trying to configure VMware Tools on the guest VM (FC6) >>> for the >>> >> > 2.6.19 kernel. >>> >> > 4) vmware-config.pl is a script which is included with VMware >>> Tools, >>> >> > a utility provided with VMware Workstation. VMware Tools is >>> packaged >>> >> > both in rpm and tar formats. >>> >> >>> >> it's called 'vmware-config-tools.pl' actually >>> > >>> > Thanks. You're correct. I may be getting into a bad habit of relying >>> > on bash's tab-completion feature and in the process overlooking the >>> > entire command. >>> >>> In fact, you shouldn't have vmware-config.pl anywhere on a guest unless >>> you are planning to run a nested guest (which may not even be possible). >>> >>> If you installed the VMwareWorkstation RPM in your guest, you should >>> remove it. >> >> Why? I might really be testing deep virtualization. >> >> Seriously, sloppyness on my part created an erroneous reference to >> vmware-config.pl. I should have referenced vmware-config-tools.pl. > > So, seriously, is your problem now solved? > > vmware-config-tools.pl refers to /etc/vmware-tools/. vmware-config.pl > refers to /etc/vmware/. Normally, a Linux host would have the former > and a Linux guest would have the latter, and not vice versa. So it > still seems odd that you were running vmware-config.pl in a Linux guest > and getting any outcome other than "command not found" (unless, as you > say...). And it still seems odd that you would have vmware-config.pl > anywhere and be missing /etc/vmware/. He doesn't have vmware-config.pl anywhere. It was a TYPO. He meant mware-config-tools.pl. I think he has said that 3 times now in different ways. -- One person's error is another person's data.
