Fedora 12 guest VMWare -- guest daemon failure

[Ed Greshko]

Michael Eager wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
FWIW, I was running F12 as a guest with SELinux enabled.  Workstation
7.0.1-227600.  No problems.

That version did not officially support F12 guests.

The latest Workstation Beta, e.x.p-240242, fully supports F12 guests.

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