From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 24 14:32:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2652816A401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailtoarfan@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4BB13C465 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailtoarfan@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so164326nzh for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:32:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole:message-id; b=N6gTntks2UlxU4rOw7KdS/ezLwXD0U752Ipdp8CoOuuAAV3W8Ba66EsVM7n/jTFCWkSSCSwVbE98Jp7Bk6YKTdEEwolGgFPvmYwaACoJ/ZpqplqLMm9/tZ582FT982H3SgfKmHE1WI7qRDoy3NO/cIp0iY2G5JVTWsvJx/p4VWA= Received: by 10.65.240.5 with SMTP id s5mr1110702qbr.1169647684228; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:08:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mirlaptop ( [71.7.146.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q13sm1066821qbq.2007.01.24.06.08.02; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:08:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Arfan A Mir" To: Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:07:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: Acc/vuUmtSgJ576YSRyGg04amguwNg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Message-ID: <45b76843.59907beb.1755.ffff97d6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD Port: vmware-tools3-3.1.1.1790 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:32:21 -0000 Hi, Could you please help me out I'm a new user of VMWare? VMware Workstation 5.5.3 Host OS WinXP SP2. Toshiba Laptop P4, ATI Radeon 9000 Graphics Card. RAM for VMware allocated 512 MB. DVD-RW/CDROM-RW Combo. I install and update Fedora Core6 in VMware Workstation5.5.3 gest OS WinXP successfully. I could not see any virtual CD or DVD ROM Drive in my Window XP explorer. But a DVD drive which works fine in XP and VMware workstation. When I click Install VMware Tools from Menue Bar in VMware Workstation it does not start installation automatically. Then I click Computer Icon placed on my desktop in VMware workstation and click on CDROM Icon. It open Folder root/media/VMware Tools Where I can see setup.exe and other files. When I click on setup.exe or VMware Tools.msi I got this message. Couldn't display "/media/VMware Tools/setup.exe". I tried to run From my WInXP start-> Run-> G:/setup/setup.exe I got messeage "Please insert disk into drive G: Where G is DVD drive letter. Here I uncompresserd VMware Tools ISO image file in WinXP location is "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMwareTools\setup.exe" When I run Setup.exe from here it started and then I got this message " The VMware Tools should only be installed inside a virtula machine." Thanks MIr