Summary: | app-emulation/open-vm-tools-0.0.20080808.109361-r1 - no drag and drop from host to virtual Gentoo | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | urcindalo <urcindalo> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
urcindalo
2008-11-12 09:29:29 UTC
Oops, I did'nt complete the bug report. As I said, it has nothing to do with bug id#236769. What's more, version 0.0.20081010.123053 from the vmware overlay does not work, either. Any help is greatly appreciated, as I use my virtual Gentoo as a part of a teaching project. Thanks in advance. Ok, this may just be normal behaviour, I've seen it when drag/dropping into windows guests, the file transfers, and makes it onto the box, but never gets moved to its final destination. The best I can suggest is to double check you've got the vmblock module loaded, and mounted within the guest (should show up on the mount command). All this *should* be done by the init script. Then also, when you're within X, make sure the vmware-user program is running (it should autorun, but that depends on using a system with the xdg specification). Please let me know if any of that helps or not... (In reply to comment #2) > Ok, this may just be normal behaviour, I've seen it when drag/dropping into > windows guests, the file transfers, and makes it onto the box, but never gets > moved to its final destination. Do you mean open-vm-tools for Windows?? With my Windows guest in my Gentoo AMD64 box I use the regular VMware Tools by VMware, and they work. The problem I see is with a linux guest and open-vm-tools. > The best I can suggest is to double check you've got the vmblock module > loaded, and mounted within the guest (should show up on the mount command). > All this *should* be done by the init script. Yes. The module is loaded at start-up by the init script. I added vmware-tools to my default level. The mount command shows: none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw) > Then also, when you're within X, make > sure the vmware-user program is running (it should autorun, but that depends on > using a system with the xdg specification). I also double-checked this in the past. When I run the vmware-user command as a normal user I get: "Another instance of vmware-user already running. Exiting." Of course, this normal user belongs to the vmware group. > Please let me know if any of that helps or not... I really appreciate your help, but all those issues had been already checked. The combo kernel-2.6.24/open-vm-tools-0.0.20080414.87182 used to work. However, I was forced to update both of them because I was getting corrupted files during draggings. Yes, I mean I've seen this with a linux host to a Windows guest, using the official windows vmware tools (open-vm-tools is only for linux). Also, you say you had it working previously, but then also say that it corrupted the transfers, which in my mind isn't working. 5;) Either way, this is likely to be a vmware problem, rather than a packaging problem. There's not a lot I can do about it I'm afraid. Sorry. 5:( If you want this fixed, you should probably file a support request with vmware (or, more likely, at http://open-vm-tools.sf.net/, since they're more likely to respond to people using officially unsupported OSes such as Gentoo)... |