VMware tools installeren op oa Fedora
1. Install software needed by VMware Tools
1. Install software needed by VMware Tools
- Install packages to build the kernel modules
- yum install gcc kernel-devel
- Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
- uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers
- If the two versions do not match, run
- yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel reboot
- 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
2. Prepare and install VMware Tools
- From VMware: 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<version>.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".
Bron: http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/fedora-core-6-vmware-tools-install.html