How to install VMware Tools?

Installation
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I’ve installed HA on my laptop under VMware. I’m using OpenHab, but I’ve heard good things about HA, so here I am.

I’m struggling to installed VMware Tools. Without that, HA kills the performance of my other VMs. I installed the SSH access. However, when I try to mount the CD, it tells me I’m not root. id says I am. Any idea why I can’t mount? I tried sudo, but that didn’t help.

I’m using VMware Workstation version 17.

Thanks, Andy

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Home Assistant OS uses Docker for … pretty much everything. When you SSH to the add-on, you’re SSHing into a Docker container.

I’m not aware of any official support for VMWare tools on HAOS, indeed there’s an open feature request for it.

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I downloaded the VMWare machine from Linux - Home Assistant

I haven’t done much with docker. I use Linux almost exclusively. I’ll see if I can figure out why root isn’t root in docker. Very strange. The VMWare setup made it easy to give HA a try.

I’ll eventually install it on some other machine. I’m running OpenHab on a Raspberry PI 4. If I make the switch to HA, I’ll just reuse it. So far I’m liking HA, though I’m not to excited about YAML, I’d rather use python. Using a markup language for programming seems a bit odd and overly restrictive to me. But, I’m just leaning HA, so maybe it will grow on me. Thanks for your help.

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How does the VMware workstation GUI look like in Linux ?, under " Manage" Virtual Machine Settings ?

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any luck on this? I’m running the hass OS VM on workstation 17 pro and would love to be able to suspend instead of having to shutdown every time I restart my machine, upgrade vmware workstation, etc…

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OVA image HAS openvmtools, only not sure if it is the latest…

For sure power-down, suspend is not any issue :grin:
(using vmware workstation 17)

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thanks for the response, apparently I missed the notification email until now.

so, I’m running the latest version of HOAS on vmware workstation 17.5 Pro and whenver I try to pause/suspend the vm, I get the following error:

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If I hit the OK button on each of those, the vm is still active. If I immediately try to pause/suspend again, it pauses with no issues, but upon resuming, it gives another error screen:
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there doesn’t seem to be any functional issues with the entire HA system post-resume, but given the size of my install, I’m concerned that there’s something wrong/ a bug in the open-vm-tools integration.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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I’m seeing this. Did you ever figure it out?

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They should update the version of VMware tools as the current version has security issues and are missing some drivers.

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Seems in meantime Open VM Tools were updated. Currently I have:
Screenshot 2024-02-17 at 17.19.18
I do not see issues like that, but I’m running HA on ESXi 8.0.

EDIT: Upon checking it also seems to be the most recent version available.

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If I understand your post correctly, you were able to successfully install vmware tools on HA running as a vm under ESXi 8.0. Can you point me in the right direction on how best to perform the vmware tools install?

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open-vm-tools are included in the image. This is on 8.0.3 24280767
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HM, this is strange. Are you using vSphere? I('m on ESXI free host 8.0.0 and it looks different:
Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 18.43.30

Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 18.41.14

Clearly it shows Open VM Tools being installed and not managed by ESX host.

Perhaps something changed in meantime, my installation is ~4 years old and was just updated from version to version, so maybe Open VM Tools were installed when I did the first install and now are maintained, while it your case it looks like using VMware original tools?

Anyhyow it come with ova image and no additional action was required.