Adar,
Thanks for your response. The version of ESX I am running doesn't support
Ubuntu 8.0.4 but I have been running it for a few months now and the only
problem I have run into is the display resolution.
I will look into ESX update release. Thank you.
Praki
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Adar Dembo <a...@vmware.com> wrote:
> > I have a Ubuntu 8.0.4 guest running on ESX 3.5. Unfortunately, I have
> > not been able to install vmware tools in this guest vm. I have
> > downloaded the latest open vm tools. When I run vmware-config-tools.pl,
> > it is unable to properly detect X server version. It prints the
> > following message.
> >
> >
> > Detected X.org version 0.0.0.
> >
> >
> >
> > No drivers for X.org version: 0.0.0.
> >
> >
> > I am unable to configure my display resolution correctly and this
> > proving to be a major issue. I really need to get this done.
> >
> > Any suggestions or work around for this problem?
>
> The VMware Tools configurator (vmware-config-tools.pl) isn't part of the
> open-vm-tools. What you're trying to do is install the regular VMware Tools,
> most likely the ones that shipped with ESX 3.5. We can try to help you with
> them too, but you'll probably have more luck filing a support request or
> posting in the VMware forums.
>
> >From what I recall, the release of ESX 3.5 didn't include support for
> Ubuntu 8.04. That came later, in an ESX 3.5 update release or patch. Could
> you make sure that the version of ESX 3.5 you're using supports Ubuntu 8.04,
> and that the Tools you're trying to install are from that version?
>
>
>
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