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15Jun/090

VMWare tools – When you have all the time in the world

What a pain in the ass! Unless you have some time you want to burn I wouldn't bother trying to install VMWare tools on a SUSE Guest if I were you.


Mounted the cdrom, copied over the tar extrated it, no probs so far, had to install "killall" which was actually under the package psmisc incase anyone is searching for it. Then I had to install the Linux source code for my running kernel, not too much of a pain, except again SUSE wont find kernel-devel or even kernel* you have to faff around in their commandline interface yast2.

Anyway after getting all the pre-requisites installed and compiling the vmware tools to match my running kernel and installing it basically just crapped out my network card and provided no performance enhancement that I could see as I don't use X.

Basically a waste of time, had to uninstall just to get the network card working again, rubbish.
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