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Hi Grobsch,

Is it possible for you to build VMTools and put into your slapt-get repo?
I mean the OpenVMTools.

I badly need it, and I guess so are all users who run GoblinX under vmware.

thanks

[Grobsch]

Ok, I'll try compile it.

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thanks a lot. I have one from Slax, but since GoblinX Kernel (2.6.24.3) is different from current Slax's (2.6.24.5), I can't use it.

That's another reason that I asked "What is Goblinx based on", because I want to know GoblinX 2.7 corresponds to which version of slax, so that I can pick module/applications.

thanks

[Grobsch]

You can use the current modules from Slax, you can even use Slik to run modules directly from the Slax modules page. I try make GoblinX near to Slackware current and with latest Linux live.
I do not use Slax's kernel mostly because it does not have bootsplash.

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[Grobsch]

Let me explain myself.. You can use any modules of Slax, but I don't know they will work because of dependencies and how they were compiled... Open Vm Tools has some deps I need to build first... There are some upgrades to include in our repository, I'll try build as soon as possible.

[Grobsch]

Added to our repository.

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Thanks a lot, Grobsch.

but I seem to have bumped into trouble when installing it:

[Grobsch]

Thanks for the reply.. corrected already. Test for me the application.. there is some dependencies for it.

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yes, previous problem gone.

I packed icu, libdnet & open-vm-tools into a single lzm and load it on booting GoblinX in vmware. but, it is not working -- copy and paste between vm-client and host does not work, and the command hgfsmounter that enable the access to vm host share is not found.

This is as far as I can go, since I'm still new to slackware/GoblinX. Could you build a working open-vm-tools lzm module please?

thanks a lot!

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I really need a working open-vm-tools lzm module to go any further with GoblinX.
thanks

[Grobsch]

The commands are different for the version I compiled, here you find some help (http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging). I never used and I don't know howto use, I only compiled and build the package. The only stuff I can do yes try compare Slax module to the package. If you find the script to build just like the one build for Slax will help.

[Grobsch]

The names of the binaries are different.
checkvm, toolbox, xferlogs, hgfsclient and guestd have vmware-* in front, for example vmware-guestd. And hgfsmounter it seems to be mount.vmhgfs.

The Slax module load the kernel modules.

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Sorry for respond late -- I meant to find the related post on slax forum but was distracted. Anyway, here is the url.

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=11661

which explains how to access to vm host share.

but actually you don't need to go this far to prove if it works or not -- launch GoblinX within vmware, if copy and paste between vm-client and host works, then it won't be too far.

I'll try your suggested init script and report back...

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