Gentoo VMWare
Setup Gentoo as a VMWare Guest
VMWare Host
Set up the new guest as a 2.6 Linux guest.
Kernel
I'm using gentoo-sources 3.8.13 for the kernel. Kernel config located here.
vmware-tools
You can use the ISO tools that ship with VMWare or you can install them from portage. I recommend portage, since they are newer.
flaggie app-emulation/vmware-tools +vmware_guest_linux emerge vmware-tools --autounmask-write
The ebuild will provide an ISO that has a tarball of the tools to install.
Note: The vmware-tools-9.2.3.1031769 ebuild provides VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz.
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso tar xf VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ perl vmware-install.pl
The init script doesn't run with Gentoo's init system, so add a local entry to start it on boot:
echo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start > /etc/local.d/vmware-tools.start echo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop > /etc/local.d/vmware-tools.stop chmod +x /etc/local.d/vmware-tools.*
Reboot the server so the vmtools daemon starts properly.
To see if you have the latest version, check the downloads page here. The “VMware Player for Linux 64-bit” bundle details will give the latest build number. That number matches the ebuild version.
