Comments on: How to install VMWare Tools for openSUSE guest OS

By: Yhandros

Yhandros — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:48:52 +0000

Wow, it’s “just” a 500 MB pre-installation before installing VMwareTools.

By: Brad Austin

Brad Austin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:54:47 +0000

When using yast2 for 10.4 you have to type yast2 -i –install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make

If you get an error saying that you need to insert the CD for yast2 fo install the media, then at the bottom of your virtual machine click the cd icon and mount the iso image to the cd and then click next. It should go from there.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:55:18 +0000

Somehow one of my dashes is missing in the previous.

instead of ^dash^install I used ^dash^^dash^install…

Bill

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:52:51 +0000

THANKS !!!

This is the magic I needed to get openSUSE 11.4 installed in VMware Fusion with a minor correction.

-install did not work… –install with the yast2 command worked.

I also had a physical DVD ready to go instead of figuring out how to get yastw to find the .iso image on the host machine.

Bill

By: Addy

Addy — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:45:28 +0000

Hi,
Thanks a million. It just worked for me.

-Addy

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:45:41 +0000

Once the install DVD for openSUSE 11.3 is connected, it shows up as /media/openSUSE-DVD-i586-Build0702..001. However, ‘yast2 –install ‘ still askes me to insert ‘openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 (Disc 1)’. Annoying. The url it is trying to mount is cd:///?devices=/dev/sr1, but the disk is actually mounted from /dev/sr0. If you click on “show details”, then it is possible to edit the URL and change the device to /dev/sr0. Then it is possible to install via yast2.

This is for VMWare 7.1.3, which automatically installs vmware tools; however, if you need any other package installed, then you’ll need to follow these steps.

By: climby

climby — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:23:42 +0000

I don’t have a GUI, so how do I find the mounted CD-Rom Media ? It’s not under /mnt or /media .

By: Hyorch

Hyorch — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:46:47 +0000

If you are installing a production server, may be you increase performance with tools. For testing servers or home-servers without X-server, don´t wate your time.

Jorge

By: Marbert

Marbert — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:29:49 +0000

Dear Sirs,

Do I need to install VMWare Tools if I use the console only? I read a bit about this, but I found references only to X application.

Best Regards

By: HYorch

HYorch — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:27:01 +0000

Better to try this
root@opensuse/# yast2 –i gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make