2009年3月17日

Install VMwareTools in Fedora 10

Issue: Cannot use share-folder after VMWareTools installed in Fedora 10.

After googling, found a solution from internet. With the following steps, the share-folder issue has been fixed. (My machine is WinXP-SP2 with v6.0.0 build-45731 VMware installed.)

1. Download open-vm-tools source from
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204462&package_id=244023".
2. Do the compilation
# tar zxvf open-vm-tools-2009.02.18-148847.tar.gz
# cd open-vm-tools-2009.02.18-148847
# ./configure --disable-unity --without-gtkmm --without-dnet --without-icu
// Need --disable-unity --without-gtkmm --without-dnet --without-icu on my machine.
# make
3. Create needed tar files for VMwareTools.
# cd open-vm-tools-2009.02.18-148847/modules/linux
# for i in *; do mv ${i} ${i}-only; tar -cf ${i}.tar ${i}-only; done
// vmblock.tar, vmci.tar, vmhgfs.tar, vmmemctl.tar, vmsync.tar and vmxnet.tar will be created.
3. Untar VMwareTools-6.0.0-45731.tar.gz, the source is from VMware software itself.
4. Copy all tar files created by open-vm-tools to vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source.
5. Run VMwareTools installation
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl
6. Besides, "RgbPath" is not a valid keyword in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, "startx" cannot be activated due to the error. Please comment it from L:13 of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Reference:
http://diamondsw.dyndns.org/Home/Et_Cetera/Entries/2008/4/25_Linux_2.6.24_and_VMWare.html