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VMware workstation 12 install on 14.2 x8664 Greetings r/Slackware I am back from distro hopping as I always seem to come back to Slackware! Anyway I am running into an issue and am wondering if anyone else has either attempted or successfully installed VMware Workstation 12 on Slackware.

Introduction

These instructions apply to ESXi 5.5. It's highly likely they also apply to other versions of VMWare, unfortunately you have a lot to choose from taking into account Workstation, Fusion and even Player and I can't test them all. These instructions refer to Slackware 64-bit 14.2 as the guest, and assume Fluxbox WM.

VM Creation Options

Creating a virtual machine is pretty standard. If you want you can choose VMXNET3 as network interface card because Slackware supports that out of the box, and should give about 15% performance boost in some workloads. Alternatively you can play it safe and just use e1000. Don't choose paravirtualised disk controller which is often 'helpfully' selected by default for Linux: either SATA or LSI Logic SAS should work fine.

Guest Additions Install

Install of VMWare tools doesn't work without some fiddling. First of all, eject the virtual CD-ROM by (as root) typing:

Now you can 'Install VMWare tools' in the ESXi management interface. This will simply 'insert' the CD with the software, because Slackware won't auto-run anything unless you've set that up.

You may find the file is called something other than vmware-tools-distrib.tar.gz, there should only be one tarball.

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Before we do anything else, we have one little patch to apply. Save this to a file called /usr/src/vmware.patch:

Now patch the source:

And finally run the installer:

I've enabled only two options that are by default disabled: Host-Guest Filesystem and vmblock. All other options areas per the default. I've included the complete typescript so you can compare with your own execution.

Guest Additions Configuration

Display

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By this point, if you are in X, you won't see much effect from VMWare Tools. The first thing to do is run:

Your display may flicker somewhat. In fact your display may end up being complete garbage. If it does, try to re-size the display window. It should then correct itself and you'll then find the X screen resizes appropriately as you change it's dimensions. You probably want to add vmware-user somewhere to start on login or when your X session starts.

Clipboard

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At this point, copying between host and guest clipboards has been enabled, however with ESXi you may find it hasn't been configured at the Virtual Machine level. Follow the VMWare instructions to get it enabled.

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* Originally written by [[wiki:user:bifferos | User bifferos]]

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