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Installing VMware Tools in Fedora 9
Tested with VMware Tools v.6.0.5 (VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz).
1. Install software needed by VMware Tools
- Install packages to build the kernel modules
yum install gcc kernel-devel gcc-c++
- 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 and install VMware Tools
Choose one of a), b), c) or d).
a) If you are running the VM inside VMware Workstation 6.0 Show answer
- From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
- The drive should be automounted
cd "/media/VMware Tools"
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
- When asked if you want vmware-config-tools.pl to try and fix your xorg.conf, say "No", and follow Fixes below.
b) If you have VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz on disk Show answer
- Make sure VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz is on disk inside the VM.
- Extract the VMware Tools iso
tar --strip-components=3 -zxvf VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz \ vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso
- Create a temporary mount point
mkdir /mnt/vmtools-temp
- Mount the iso image
mount -o loop linux.iso /mnt/vmtools-temp
- Copy VMware Tools from the mount
cp /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz /tmp/
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/vmtools-temp/VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz
- Tidy up
umount /mnt/vmtools-temp rmdir /mnt/vmtools-temp rm linux.iso
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
- When asked if you want vmware-config-tools.pl to try and fix your xorg.conf, say "No", and follow Fixes below.
c) If you have VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz on disk Show answer
- Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
tar -C /tmp -zxvf VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz
- Now run the installer
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
- When asked Do you want to run vmware-config-tools.pl?, answer "Yes".
- When asked if you want vmware-config-tools.pl to try and fix your xorg.conf, say "No", and follow Fixes below.
d) If you cannot do any of these Show answer
- Download VMware Workstation Trial (free) from
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ - Go to If you have VMwareTools-6.0.5-109488.tar.gz on disk, above.
3. Fixes
a) Your host system's keyboard is broken Show answer
No "correct" fix yet, but this works:
- From a console window in X, run:
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de
(replace de with your layout.
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