VMWare Tools not Present
miketweaver opened this issue · 4 comments
miketweaver commented
This VM I spun up is very slow to run when I don't have vmware tools installed. This process took, probably, 15 minutes. The VM appears to be running, but doesn't show in Fusion because of start nogui.
VMWare Tools is not installed on the guest (by design).
$ mech up luke
Getting IP address...
VM started on Error: The VMware Tools are not running in the virtual machine: /Users/miketweaver/.mech/luke/packer-vmware-iso.vmx
Sharing current folder...
VM started on Error: The VMware Tools are not running in the virtual machine: /Users/miketweaver/.mech/luke/packer-vmware-iso.vmx
ColdHeat commented
I'm unsure if this is something that mech can fix. I think vmrun is sort of dependent on VMWare Tools.
Do you want mech to install VMWare Tools for you?
miketweaver commented
No. At least not without prompting.
A better option would be to use check_tools before running vm.ip(),vm.enableSharedFolders(),vm.addSharedFolder('mech', os.getcwd()) (link) as those won't be supported if VMWare Tools is not installed.
ColdHeat commented
Ah okay I see your point