However, there is 3 problems that ruin it.
1. I lose my virtual network connection. ifconfig only shows the loopback device. I assume this is happening because we're trying to use the vmxnet module instead of the default pcnet32 module.
2. Auto-resize of X session doesn't work. On the other distro's I've tried, resizing the VMWare window auto resizes the X session to match it. This doesn't happen in Fedora 8. The resolution does get set to whatever I choose in the initial configuration, but no auto resizing.
3. Copy & paste between host and guest does not work. Not too big of a deal, but would be nice.
Has anyone been able to successfully install VMWare Tools on Fedora 8? It appears to be version 7.6.2 5 build 62573.
The VMware tools installed fine on the Fedora 8 distribution built from the DVD installer. No problem there.
Once I upgraded via "yum" to 2.6.24.3-34.fc8, however, the kernel modules quit working. Further, attempts to re-run the VMware installer failed as it attempted, and failed, to build new version of the modules from sources.
I then downloaded the recently-released open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724 (fresh yesterday!). That built just fine...but it doesn't come with an installer. It doesn't seem to play nicely with the regular python VMware tools installer, either, as far as I can tell. It does have an "install" target in the Makefile, but that doesn't install any kernel modules, just stuff in /usr/lib/vmware-tools.
Any clues on how to get the open-vmware tools installed?
Thanks!
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