Another OCUM question for you experts,
In order to be able to experiment a little, I am trying to install the OCUM 7.1 .ova appliance image in VMware Workstation 12.5.2 on my laptop (Windows 10).
Unfortunately I fell at the first hurdle :-(.
As the OCUM system boots for the first time, in the console window of the guest I see this message:
Booting OnCommand Unifed Manager virtual appliance...
VMware Tools installation
Please select VM | Guest | Install/Upgrade VMware Tools for this virtual machine in the vSphere Client.
Installation/Upgrade will then proceed automatically.
In the VMware Workstation product the menu option to install the Tools package is "VM -> Install VMware Tools", however this option is greyed out.
So at this point I seem to be deadlocked, the OCUM "install" or setup won't continue until the VMware Tools are installed, but the option to install the Tools is not available.
In the VMware guest hardware settings I tried changing the device settings for the CDROM/DVD from "Auto detect" to "Use ISO image file" and specifying a random .iso file (the laptop has no physical CDROM/DVD drive). I also tried disabling VMware software updates in preferences. However the Tools install option remains greyed out, even after restarting VMware Workstation.
Does anyone know why this would be, or how to fix it?
What is the OCUM guest image doing at this point? Does it actually require the VMware Tools package? Is there some way to skip this step in the installation?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Cheers,
Robb.