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VMware Tools and Fedora 8

VMware Worsktation 6’s WMware Tools provides both binary RPM and a source code level tar.gz installation files. The RPM installation doesn’t work with Fedora 8 (Linux) because it isn’t recognized in its list. The code extracted from the tar.gz file (a Perl installation script) doesn’t recognize Fedora 8 either. However, it offers the option of compiling the source code for the unrecognized Linux distro. This seems to result in a functional VMware Tools installation. At least VMW6 reports VMware Tools installed successfully in the bottom border after rebooting Fedora 8.

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5 Responses to “VMware Tools and Fedora 8”

  1. OkonX Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    I have to try and get FC8 woriking with VMWTs…I’ll post my experience

  2. Jim Quinlan Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 6:46 am

    I’ve tried it. On the plus side, VMWare split the tools package into independent installs of different features, and instead of dying outright it will move onto the next attempt to install a feature if the current failed. This is what happened to me; 3-4 of the features failed but some succeeded, and the install ends with “VMWare Tools Installed Successfully” although that may be overstating the case.

    I do see that I can now cut-n-paste to/from Windows.

    JimQ

    PS Kernel is 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 and I did install “kernel-devel” package before running the install.

  3. Ron Thompson Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    I installed the vmware tools by compiling them as described in the previous post.
    When I start the vmware-toolbox utility or the vmware-user utility i get a warning that it cannot find the libgnomebreakpad.so file. I’m not sure what this is or what features are not working properly because of it?

    Any help appreciated

    Ron

  4. dd Says:
    March 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 am

    same problem
    It say the installation ends in sucess, but when I restart the system, the tools are not installed
    any help please??

  5. glq2000 Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 4:37 am

    I have to install vmware-tools for the F8 in the vm.Beause I need to share folders between the host machine(i.e. XP) and the guest machine(i.e. F8).But it does goes well, the vmhgfs module cann’t be installed into the kernel. I’m so frustrated.

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