[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on VMware Fusion...

[Tim Hull]

To provent the good drivers from being replaced by bad drivers, after you extract the VMware tools (but before you install), change to the "vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg/7.1" directory ("vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg/7.1_64" on 64-bit systems).

cd vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg/7.1

Then, copy the "/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so" file ("/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so" on 64-bit) to this directory

cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so .

Finally, copy the "/usr/X11/lib/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so" file ("/usr/X11/lib/modules/input/amd64/vmmouse_drv.so" on 64-bit) to this same directory

cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so .

Finally, install VMware tools.  X11 should work after installation now.

Also, note that if you have already installed VMware tools, you will need to instead restore the old drivers as follows (from single-user mode): 

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

cp /usr/X11/lib/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall  /usr/X11/lib/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so

(substitute the alternate paths for 64-bit) 

For everything else, follow the other guides to VMware/OpenSolaris posted in these forums (the one I looked at was entitled "Indiana PV on VMware" or something like that.  You can get everything working, basically, except for VMware file sharing.
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