Comments on: VMware Tools and Fedora 8

By: glq2000

glq2000 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:37:21 +0000

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.

By: dd

dd — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:24:31 +0000

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

By: Ron Thompson

Ron Thompson — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:03:56 +0000

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

By: Jim Quinlan

Jim Quinlan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:46:17 +0000

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.

By: OkonX

OkonX — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:28:16 +0000

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