VMware tools installeren op oa Fedora

1. Install software needed by VMware Tools

1. Install packages to build the kernel modules
   1. yum install gcc kernel-devel
2. Check the running kernel matches the kernel headers
   1. uname -r # running kernel rpm -q kernel-devel # installed kernel headers
3. If the two versions do not match, run
   1. yum -y upgrade kernel kernel-devel reboot
4. Find out where the kernel headers are (you may need this later)
   1. ls -d /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)*/include

2. Prepare and install VMware Tools

1. From VMware: go to VM> Install VMware Tools
2. From the VM: mount the virtual cd drive
   1. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
3. Extract VMware Tools to /tmp/
   1. tar -C /tmp -zxvf /mnt/VMwareTools<version>.tar.gz
4. Unmount the virtual cd drive
   1. umount /mnt
5. Now run the installer
   1. cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl
6. 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