installing vmware-tools in vmware-fusion running bt4-prefinal

[littlegreendragon]

this tutorial is based off of the offensive-security website.
for a better understanding watch the video up and running backtrack 4,
read the blog post about installing vmware-tools and
read the instructions contained in vmware-tools-patch-backtrack4-7.8.5-2_6_29.tar

we will assume 2 things.
you have just finished installing bt4-prefinal on your virtual machine
and that machine is hosted on VMware-Fusion-2.0.4

from the command line enter the username and password you chose during the installation.

grant yourself superuser powers by typing

sudo su

and set a root password by typing

passwd
followed by your new password twice.

fix initrd.gz and splash by typing

fix-splash

when asked if you want to replace initrd.gz answer yes (y)

reboot


login as root then start networking and X11

dhclient eth0

startx

once X has loaded

start the vmware-tools installation from the vmware menu.
open a terminal and

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.9.3-159196.tar.gz /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom

cancel the vmware tools installation from the virtual machine menu

cd /tmp

wget xxx.offensive-security.com/tools/vmware-tools-patch-backtrack4-7.8.5-2_6_29.tar

tar -xf VMwareTools-7.9.3-159196.tar.gz
tar -xf vmware-tools-patch-backtrack4-7.8.5-2_6_29.tar

now we have to edit some things by hand

cp /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmsync.tar /tmp/vmsync.tar
tar -xf vmsync.tar
cd vmsync-only

edit the Makefile and change this line

$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default \
to read
$(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default -I$(HEADER_DIR)\

save and quit

cd ../
tar -cf vmsync.tar vmsync-only
cp /tmp/vmsync.tar /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/vmsync.tar

edit the file vmwaretools-7.8.5-156735.patch
and remove this hunk

--- vmdesched-OLD/Makefile 2009-03-26 22:37:37.000000000 -0500
+++ vmdesched-only/Makefile 2009-04-08 10:19:50.000000000 -0500
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@

vm_check_build = $(shell if $(CC) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) \
$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS_KERNEL) \
- $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default \
+ $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -Iinclude2/asm/mach-default -I$(HEADER_DIR) \
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"$(DRIVER)\" \
-Werror -S -o /dev/null -xc $(1) \
> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(2)"; else echo "$(3)"; fi)

save the file, and run
./vmwaretools.sh

[Vagabond]

Unfortunatly this doesn´t work with the vmware-tools that come with Fusion 2.0.5..if anyone has a solution for this, please post !!! THNX

[littlegreendragon]

here are the revised instructions for 2.0.5
start vmware-tools install from the vmware menu
open a terminal and
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar.gz /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom
cancel the vmware tools installation from the virtual machine menu
cd /tmp
gunzip VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar.gz
tar -xf VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

[Vagabond]

Thanks for the quick help. The Installation went without any problems, but while rebooting i read an ugly: "cannot mount filesystem: protocol error"

doing "startx" I read

(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111):unable to connect to X server
xiinit: No such process (errno 3): server error.

Is was working well before the installation...i had to do the "fix-splash" command again, because somehow the VM-Tools installation undid whatever "fix-splash" did.......Ideas ?

[littlegreendragon]

First the error message:

Mounting local filesystems...Error: cannot mount filesystem: Protocol error
FAILED.

this message is harmless in and of itself. It simply means that you are not sharing files between the virtual machine and the host. if you enable file sharing it goes away and if you disable file sharing it cries because it can't read the filesystem that you are not sharing.

as for the boot splash...
I didn't notice it was gone until you pointed it out.

running fix-splash again failed to break X11 so I'm not quite sure what happened.

I did this from a clean installation and it worked for me.

after login:

sudo su
passwd
exit
logout

login as root

startx

once X has loaded start vmware-tools install from the vmware menu.
open a terminal

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar.gz /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom

cancel the vmware tools installation from the virtual machine menu

cd /tmp
gunzip VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar.gz
tar -xf VMwareTools-7.9.6-173382.tar
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
vmware-user
fix-splash
poweroff

click on settings
enable sharing
add a shared folder
power on the machine
login as root
startx

[Vagabond]

Thank You ! Works awesome now..i think i did two things wrong:

-doing fix-splash BEFORE the installation
-doing the installation outside X

Greetz !