Installing VMware Tools in Fedora Core 6

1. Install software needed by VMware Tools

  1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
    yum install gcc kernel-devel
  2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
    uname -r             # running kernel
    rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers
    
  3. If the two versions do not match, run
    yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel
    reboot
  4. 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 5.5

b) If you have VMware-workstation-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz on disk

d) If you cannot do any of theseĀ Show answer

3. Fixes

a) X does not work/”undefined monitor” problem

b) Your mouse is stuck inside your VM

c) vmhgfs driver does not compile

4. Not fixed

  • fast ethernet driver compile
  • copy and paste between VM and host