Friday 2 May 2008

Solaris 10, X fails to start after installing VMWare tools

Note to self - if this happens restore the pre-installation vmware_drv.so as per this link:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/93366

and this one too http://knowledgefrontier.blogspot.com/2008/04/opensolaris-snv86-on-vmware-with.html

which is essentially to do this:

mv /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so

luckily vmware keeps the old copy, which is handy....

this is dead easy when you know it. When it only shows up as a problem after a reboot, and the time between installing the tools and rebooting is days or weeks with many other changes in-between - working out the cause and effect relationship is not always so obvious :)

No comments: