Comments on: Quick Guide: Installing VMware Tools with Fedora 12

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:52:22 +0000

I got this to work – thanks! – but when I reboot my virtual machine, my shared folder is gone from mnt/hgfs and I have to reinstall the VMware Tools. Anything I can do to not have to reinstall them every time I reboot?

By: Davide Ganz

Davide Ganz — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:13:21 +0000

Here are two accurate and version free tutorials for Installing in PAE and non-PAE:

http://install-climber.blogspot.com/2011/05/installing-vmware-tools-on-fedora-pae.html
http://install-climber.blogspot.com/2011/05/installing-vmware-tools-on-fedora.html

By: mrdvt92

mrdvt92 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:28:03 +0000

Wouldn’t you think that a company like VMWare would have a Yum Repo for these tools?

I don’t have access to the “VMware application” that you mention in step 11. I have both root access to the VM instance and access to vSpere.

Is there another way to get this installed, preferably an rpm via a yum repo?

mrdvt92

By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:33:44 +0000

Thanks man !! It really works !!! Great.. thanks a million !!

By: Tao

Tao — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:24:42 +0000

you should reboot to make them valid.

By: Tao

Tao — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:20:28 +0000

the different versions of kernel and kernel-devel will also caused this issue.

yum upgrade kernel kernel-devel -y

reinstall vm-tools.

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By: StevenS

StevenS — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:11:52 +0000

Kevin,

First, thanks for taking the time to document this. I was having problems and this definitely put me on the right path. However, I’m still having problems and I’m hoping someone here can help.

I’m trying to run FC12 as a guest under ESX 3.5. I can’t upgrade to ESX 4.0 due to hardware compatibility issues.

I follow the steps above (yum update and installing the PAE kernel headers/etc). When I try to run the configure script, I get output like this for almost every piece it tries to build:

[root@localhost bin]# ./vmware-config-tools.pl

Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: [ OK ]
Trying to find a suitable vmmemctl module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module
for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
[yes]

Using compiler “/usr/bin/gcc”. Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?
[/lib/modules/2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmemctl module.

Building the vmmemctl module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE’
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/backdoorGcc32.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/backdoor.h:29,
from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/backdoorGcc32.c:45:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/vm_basic_types.h:119:7: warning: “__FreeBSD__” is not defined
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/os.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/os.c:51:
/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:70: note: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only/os.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE’
make: *** [vmmemctl.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmemctl-only’
Unable to build the vmmemctl module.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:23:19 +0000

Whether this guild works or not depends not only on what version of the kernel you have, but also what version of VMware! If you have VMware 7 it works fine, if you have VMware 5 it doesn’t work at all.