Solaris 11 - VMtools Install

Installing VMware Tools in a Solaris guest operating system.

1. Download the ISO image and attach to the VM.
2. Login to Solaris VM, copy the vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz file from /cdrom/vmwaretools to a /var/tmp
3. Extract the contents of the tar file
# tar xzvf vmware-solaris-tools.tar

4. Install the VMware Tools
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl

5. Press Enter to accept all of the default values.
6. Reboot the virtual machine for the changes to take effect.
12.Verify VMware tools service is running
# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmtoolsd is running



root@sopc-sp-v01:~# swap -l
swapfile                 dev            swaplo      blocks        free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 285,1               8     8388600     8388600
root@sopc-sp-v01:~# zfs get all | grep swap
root@sopc-sp-v01:~# zfs get volsize rpool/swap
NAME        PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool/swap  volsize   4G     local
root@sopc-sp-v01:~# zfs set volsize=16G rpool/swap

                                   zoned                            off                                              default
root@sopc-sp-v01:~# swap -l
swapfile                 dev            swaplo      blocks        free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 285,1               8     8388600     8388600
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 285,1         8388616    25165816    25165816

root@sopc-sp-v01:/media/VMware Tools# mkdir /var/tmp/VmTools
root@sopc-sp-v01:/media/VMware Tools# cp -r * /var/tmp/VmTools/
root@sopc-sp-v01:/media/VMware Tools# du -sh *
   0K   manifest.txt
  16M   vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz
root@sopc-sp-v01:/media/VMware Tools# cd /var/tmp/VmTools
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools# ls
manifest.txt                 vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools# tar -xzvf vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools# ls
manifest.txt                 vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz  vmware-tools-distrib
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools# cd vmware-tools-distrib/
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools/vmware-tools-distrib# ls
bin                etc                INSTALL            lib
doc                FILES              installer          vmware-install.pl
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]

INPUT: [/usr/bin]  default

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc]

INPUT: [/etc]  default

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d]

INPUT: [/etc/init.d]  default

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?
[/usr/sbin]

INPUT: [/usr/sbin]  default

In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

INPUT: [/usr/lib/vmware-tools]  default

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

INPUT: [yes]  default

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

INPUT: [/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]  default

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program
is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you
want? [yes]

INPUT: [yes]  default

The installation of VMware Tools 10.2.5 build-8068406 for Solaris completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want
this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

INPUT: [yes]  default

Initializing...


Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon:                                         done


The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS
and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish
to enable this feature? [no]

INPUT: [no]  default

The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a
Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish to enable this feature?
[no]

INPUT: [no]  default

svcprop: Pattern 'application/x11/x11-server' doesn't match any entities
No supported X install found.

Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration:                                      done
Guest memory manager:                                                  done
Guest operating system daemon:                                         done
The configuration of VMware Tools 10.2.5 build-8068406 for Solaris for this
running kernel completed successfully.

svcprop: Pattern 'application/x11/x11-server' doesn't match any entities
You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take
effect.

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

Found VMware Tools CDROM mounted at /media/VMware Tools. Ejecting device
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2 ...
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools/vmware-tools-distrib# /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmtoolsd is running
root@sopc-sp-v01:/var/tmp/VmTools/vmware-tools-distrib#