
Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems
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Do not start the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools
and run the SaX2 configuration utility. See Before You Start the X Server below.
To start installing VMware Tools in a TLES 8 guest, use the following command:
./install.pl suse
Note: When you start installing VMware Tools (by typing ./vmware-
install.pl suse in the vmware-linux-tools directory), the following
message appears:
Found an installed version of the VMware SVGA driver for
XFree86 4. Some versions of this driver included with the
XFree86 4 distributions do not work properly. Would you
like to install a stable (but possibly older) version of
the driver over the currently installed one?
If you plan to dual-boot the virtual machine, answer Yes to allow the driver to be
installed. Answer Yes again to back up the existing video driver files and also copy the
XF86Config-4.dist file to XF86Config-4.vm. The latter file is used when
dual-booting the virtual machine.
If you do not intend to dual-boot the virtual machine, answer No to keep the existing
driver.
Before You Start the X Server
After you have installed VMware Tools, but before you start the X server, as root user,
run the SaX2 configuration utility to configure your X server. At a command prompt,
type SaX2 and use the wizard to configure your X server.
GSX Server: If you intend to connect to this virtual machine with the VMware Virtual
Machine Console, configure the color resolution for 65536 (16-bit) colors or less.
After you run SaX2 you may boot your TLES 8 virtual machine with any of the
selections offered in GRUB.
Enabling Sound After Installing TLES 8
GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by default and must be enabled with the
virtual machine control panel (VM > Settings) after the operating system has been
installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in the
GSX Server documentation.
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