VMware 4.x and FC2T2 - no X - X worked for FC2T1

[Jim Cornette]

Jeremy A. Rosengren wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to setup the GUI for my vmware installation of test2 and 
>> cannot get X to work yet.
>>
>> I am able to retrieve updates using up2date and downloaded the 
>> xorg-x11 updates. It was still installing the new xorg-x11 packages 
>> when the workday was done. I haven't tried to setup X with the newest 
>> rawhide packages yet.
>>
>> The strange thing was that the installer worked fine in the GUI mode 
>> and completed successfully. I was surprised that X didn't start for 
>> firstboot. I didn't check if xfs was running or not. (post-install)
>>
>> I did not enable SELinux for this installation. The driver that X 
>> wants to use is the VMware driver.
>>
>> Any clues to either getting X to eventually work with newer versions 
>> of certain rpms would be appreciated.
>>
>> This is on a Dell 2.4 GHz processor. I'm not sure how vmware emulates 
>> hardware without the toolkit installed. I only started using vmware 
>> recently.
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> The reason X under VMware doesn't work in FC2T2 is because the 
> vmware-config-tools.pl setup script hasn't been modified to search for 
> Xorg -- it still attempts to look for the XFree86 version and ends up 
> failing because XFree86 isn't there.
> 
> There's a line in the script (which I don't have in front of me or I'd 
> paste the text) that searches for the XFree86 version or returns 0.0.0. 
>  If you change the 0.0.0 to 4.4.0, then /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl 
> script will complete.
> 
> Note:  the vmware-config-tools.pl script still has a problem building 
> the vmhgfs module, but that doesn't pertain to getting X to run and can 
> be ignored until VMware fixes things.
> 
> -- jeremy
> 
> 


Thanks for the clues for getting X to run with the xorg change. I'm very 
new to vmware and didn't even know how to install or run the script.

I'm using version 4.5.1 (workstation). I'll look at the script Monday.

Thanks,

Jim