When I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit in VMWare Player, it offered to download and install the tools for me. I'm not sure it succeeded. (This computer has had troubles recently with truncated/corrupted downloads.) My Windows 7 VM works fine but the Ubuntu VMs don't work.
Symptoms:
- Nautilus crashes.
- The guest doesn't remember my resolution.
- The guest hangs for 30 seconds everytime I try to set the resolution.
- The guest may hang indefinitely at startup.
- vmware.log contains an error about missing file: svga3d.dll
- vmware.log contains many errors about failure to enforce norxloss
- vmware.log contains hundreds of errors about serial0 overrun
Then I wiped the VM and reinstalled 12.10. Same problems. Then I created another VM for 12.04. Same problems, except it doesn't hang for 30 seconds.
I searched for a while to figure out where these auto-downloaded tools are located on my host, so I could delete them and redownload them. After finding about 1 million how-to guides for reinstalling the tools in the guest, I gave up. I want to re-download the files in the host, so that I can be sure EasyInstall will actually have valid files to work with. But I don't see any tools download section, nor any hashes/checksums to verify the downloads.
It appears the "components" are just zipped folders with files VMWare Player scatters throughout the installation folder, so I have no idea which files to delete or how to tell VMWare Player to just re-download the linux tools.