Host Windows 8
Guest Debian Sid
VMware Tools fails (as it does in VMWare 9) with following error message:
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.9-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64
Starting Virtual Printing daemon: done
Checking acpi hot plug done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
VMware Automatic Kmods: done
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1118: local: ': bad variable name
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1118: local: ': bad variable name
Blocking file system: failed
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1215: local: ': bad variable name
Guest operating system daemon: done
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Is there a fix?
(This post was mistakenly posted in the normal Workstation forum, and has been repeated here as I cannot delete the other thread.)