Installing VMware Tools in Fedora Core 6

Install packages to build the kernel modules

yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel

Remove the xen kernel

rpm -e kernel-xen*

Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers

uname -r             # running kernel

rpm -q kernel-devel  # installed kernel headers

Reboot X

From VMware Workstation: go to VM> Install VMware Tools

From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/

Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/

tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools-5.5.2-29772.tar.gz

Unmount the virtual cd drive

umount /mnt

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".

Edit the X config file

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add the lines

Section "Monitor"


    Identifier   "vmware"


    HorizSync 1.0 - 10000.0


    VertRefresh 1.0 - 10000.0


EndSection

Restart X