Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:07:59 -0400 From: "Arfan A Mir" <mailtoarfan@gmail.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD Port: vmware-tools3-3.1.1.1790 Message-ID: <45b76843.59907beb.1755.ffff97d6@mx.google.com>
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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
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