Fedora 12 guest VMWare -- guest daemon failure

Michael Eager eager at eagercon.com
Fri Mar 19 08:26:15 UTC 2010


Michael Eager wrote:
> I've created a Fedora 12 VMWare guest on a Fedora 10 system.
> VMWare tools appear to build and install correctly, and when
> I start/stop them manually, they appear to work.  After starting
> them I can resize the VM window to match my screen.
> 
> When I reboot the guest, a message is issued saying "guest daemon
> failed" and VMware tools shuts down.
> 
> There's nothing in boot.log or messages which gives a clue.
> In the vmware-tools script, all I can see is that guestd returns
> non-zero.
> 
> Anyone run into this?

Resolved:  SELinux was causing ldd to fail.  Turned off SELinux.

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