Installing VMware Tools in Fedora Core 5

. Install software needed by VMware Tools

Install packages to build the kernel modules
```
yum install gcc kernel-devel
```

Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers

uname -r             # running kernel
rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers

If the two versions do not match, run

yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
reboot

Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
```
ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include
```

2. Prepare VMware Tools

Choose one of a), b), c) or d).

a) If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 5.5

b) If you have VMware-workstation-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz on disk

c) If you have VMwareTools-5.5.1-19175.tar.gz on disk

d) If you cannot do any of these

3. Install VMware Tools

Note: Version 5.5.1 of VMware Tools requires a patch, shown below. If you are using a later version of VMware Tools, this is not be required. Try running /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl first without the patch, and only if it fails follow this section.

Backup your existing file

cp /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl.orig

Patch the file (see note above)

cd /tmp/
wget http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-tools-any-update2.tar.gz
tar zxvf vmware-tools-any-update2.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-any-update2/
./runme.pl

When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer “Yes”.