Fedora 7 and VMware - Problems

[Ed Greshko]

Eric wrote:
> At 10:35 PM 5/20/2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> <EP>>>>> I haven't gotten around to trying to install VMware Tools yet,
> suspected that probably might not work well.  What happened when you
> tried (if in fact you did try it)?<<<<<
> 
> <EG>>>>>It fails in the module compilations.<<<<<
> 
> Ah, OK.  It did that with FC6 as a guest, too.  I just told it not to
> compile those modules.  I forget exactly what those modules do but I do
> recall that it was something I could live without.  Main thing I wanted
> from VMware Tools was the higher-resolution SVGA driver, and I was able
> to install that.

FWIW, vmware-tools installs and compiles just fine in FC6 guest with VMware 6.0.

> I did have to manually diddle with the xorg.conf file a bit, though.

Also, not needed with the above combination.