VMware Tools install fails on SLES 10 SP4 x64

Question

I installed SLES 10 SP4 64 bit in VMWare Player 7.1.0 and tried to install the VMWare tools.

From the CD I extracted VMwareTools-9.9.2-2496486.tar.gz (as running run_upgrader.sh fails...) and started vmware-install.pl which starts bin/vmware-config-tools.pl that fails with:

Searching for GCC...
sh: line 1: 18379 Floating point exception'/usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-modconfig-console' --validate-gcc "" -- -l "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" >/dev/null 2>&1
The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

What is the location of the gcc program on your machine? /usr/bin/gcc

sh: line 1: 18384 Floating point exception'/usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-modconfig-console' --validate-gcc "/usr/bin/gcc" -- -l "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" >/dev/null 2>&1
The path "/usr/bin/gcc" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

I installed make, gcc, c++ (g++), kernel-source and Basis-Devel, but something is still missing.

What is bothering it? Wrong perl version? I have 5.8.8 installed.

Answer 1

Do you have libglib-2_0-0 installed? Perhaps the commands 'whereis gcc' or 'which gcc' commands could provide more information. I'm not very familiar with SLES, but hopefully this will help.

Edit: VMware Tools may be available as a package. Try searching for open-vm-tools or vmware tools using your pkg manager. Also, check out VMware's OS specific repositories.

Answer 2

Please look into the Guest OS Customization Support Matrix: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf

Seems that you're using an not supported SuSE Release (< 10SP4). Upgrade at least to SLES10 SP4 / SLES11 SP4