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stefantalpalaru / gentoo-overlay

Gentoo overlay
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vmware could not detect installed vmware tools iso #96

Closed CHN-beta closed 2 years ago

CHN-beta commented 2 years ago

I installed vmware-workstation with the following use flag: cups modules systemd vmware-tools-windows

However, when I start a windows guest and try to install vmware tools, it tells me to download again.

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I noticed archlinux do not have this problem, and they install vmware into /usr rather than /opt/vmware. I tried to manually link /opt/vmware/lib/vmware to /usr/lib/vmware, but it does not help.

Could you please help me solve this problem?

stefantalpalaru commented 2 years ago

Mount "/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso" on the VM's CD/DVD drive and install it from there.

CHN-beta commented 2 years ago

You are right😃, just manually "insert" the iso file and it works. I have tried to modify ebuild to install vmware into /usr rather than /opt/vmware like Archlinux, but unfortunately the issue is still there. Could not figure out why, very weird and I decide to give up😂

What's more, now fperms seems no longer expand *, causes ebuild failed at line 284. Replace the line with following command works.

find "${D}/${VM_INSTALL_DIR}"/lib/vmware/bin -type f -not -name '*.zip' -printf '%p\n' | xargs -n1 chmod 0755