On Mon July 21 2008, Alex Katebi wrote: > What advantage are you gaining by doing things that way? My vm's run just > fine the way I'm doing it now - what improvement should I expect by > learning the method you suggest? > > > I thought that you were encountering errors by running the vmware tools > alone. I was trying to help you to install vmware tools without errors. > no, I am seeking information - you made some rather cryptic statements and I was trying to learn something - I'm afraid I'm still not understanding you - I am not the original poster, and I'm having no problems running vmware-server on top of Fedora 9, which is what I believe the original poster was asking about *to be clear, I'm running vmware-server, the latest version, installed from the rpm on the vmware site, on my F9 box *after running the new version as an update to my working vmware installation yesterday, I then ran the any-any 117 patch, which built a new module for my vmware version and running kernel *I then started up a WinXP vm and it produced a message telling me my vmware tools were out of date *I then installed the vmware tools without incident, and my WinXP vm is now running perfectly on top of Fedora9 I still don't understand exactly what it is you're doing. For example, you stated: "Before booting your guest Fedora make sure that your vmware cd drive is not pointing to an iso image. After booting install the vmeare tools as you said. Then untar & unzip the vmeare tools." First, I'm not booting a guest Fedora - I'm running mostly Windows VM's on top of Fedora 9. Secondly, after installing vmware tools as I've said, my virtual machine runs perfectly; but, you then state that I should untar & unzip the vmware tools! OK - let's assume that's a typo, and you meant to say, I should untar & unzip the open-vm-tools...If that is correct, what exactly shall I gain from all this? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
