I've done a "physical to virtual" copy of my Gentoo installation (by
hand, no tools used) in order to experiment in it rather than in the
real installation. It went smooth; just the usual "cp -a
/mnt/physical/* /mnt/virtual/" along with chrooting into virtual and
setting up grub with a previously compiled kernel and changing fstab.

I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
kernel modules (at least that's the plan).

Is anyone else having the same issue with vmware-guestd?

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
> the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
> tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
> linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
> However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
> does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
> kernel modules (at least that's the plan).

Did you install the tools manually or by emerging vmware-workstation-tools?

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
> the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
> tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
> linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
> However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
> does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
> kernel modules (at least that's the plan).

Did you install the tools manually or by emerging vmware-workstation-tools?

pk wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
>> the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
>> tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
>> linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
>> However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
>> does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
>> kernel modules (at least that's the plan).
>
> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging vmware-workstation-tools?

Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"

pk wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> I booted it in VMWare and installed the vmware-tools. I had to create
>> the "/etc/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d" directories first though. The
>> tools compiled almost fine (I had to change a few typedefs due to a
>> linux header clash) and then did "rc-update add vmware-tools default".
>> However, on booting, vmware-guestd doesn't always start; sometimes it
>> does, sometimes it doesn't. It's loaded automatically by the vmware
>> kernel modules (at least that's the plan).
>
> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging vmware-workstation-tools?

Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

>> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging
>> vmware-workstation-tools?
>
> Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
> versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"

Try using the vmware overlay, it seems to provide more recent versions of
the tools (6.0.0 ATM).

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

>> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging
>> vmware-workstation-tools?
>
> Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
> versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"

Try using the vmware overlay, it seems to provide more recent versions of
the tools (6.0.0 ATM).

pk wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>>> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging
>>> vmware-workstation-tools?
>> Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
>> versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"
>
> Try using the vmware overlay, it seems to provide more recent versions of
> the tools (6.0.0 ATM).

Thanks for the heads-up; I didn't look into overlays at all till now.

pk wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>>> Did you install the tools manually or by emerging
>>> vmware-workstation-tools?
>> Manually; the ones in portage seem hopelessly outdated: "Available
>> versions: ~*4.5.3-r1 ~5.5.1-r2 ~5.5.2 ~5.5.3 {X}"
>
> Try using the vmware overlay, it seems to provide more recent versions of
> the tools (6.0.0 ATM).

Thanks for the heads-up; I didn't look into overlays at all till now.