On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 23:19 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
William Lovaton wrote:
So you managed to install the tools? How did that go? is it working good for you? did you see any indication of the progress? I just see that g-v-m crashes but other than that I don't see that VMWare tool are being installed... did you get some feedback on your screen or something? did you get a confirmation message that the tool were installed ok?
You guys could try the latest vmware-any-any patches from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ to see if that solves your issues. Whatever issue could easily be related to selinux, gcc stack protection or some other thing and the any-any patches tries to take care of weird situation like this. That said, i did not try installing FC5test under VMware workstation.
Exactly so, WRT to the vmware-any-any patches. I used them throughout FC4 with VMWare 5.0 to great results.
The way to install tools in a linux guest, IMHO, is selecting "install vmware tools", mount the cd in the guest, untgz and build the tools. That should take care of the entire thing.
Actually, I installed the RPM, which I would consider preferable in an RPM-based distro. ;-) Works just as well:
1. Mount CD manually (mount /media/cdrom) 2. run: su -c 'rpm -ivh /media/cdrom/VMWare*rpm' (you can't use yum because the RPM is not signed -- this is not a big deal since the package from whence the CD files come is, itself, signed) 3. run: su -c 'vmware-config-tools.pl' (need kernel-devel and gcc installed)