Hi Monty,
> I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.
Same here.
> Centos6.2 is a guest.
Same here.
> The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.
OK, there's a difference - I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. But that shouldn't make a difference.
> Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was
> working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working.
Works here.
> Centos is fully updated to 6.2.
Same here.
> I have tried to install the vmware drivers from the repository (via yum),
> and yum reports I have the latest. Vmware reports I have the latest
> version of app and linux tools.
My current versions are:
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_64 12.7.0-1.el6
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6
VMware Tools version is:
VMware-Tools-8.8.1-528969
This is the version that was downloaded by Fusion after the upgrade to 4.1.1.
> I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail. During
> the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have
> drivers for x:
I get the statement that it does not install X drivers since there are drivers installed by the distribution, but resizing works fine, so the drivers should be up-to-date.
Detected X server version 1.10.4
Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
> Anybody else come across this? Google and vmware sites either do not
> have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.
>
> This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run
> updates until needed? What is best practice in this config?
I usually install all updates provided by CentOS (the VMs I run on Fusion are mostly test systems). From time to time, there are kernel updates that are not compatible with VMware Tools, but usually a reconfiguration (with installed gcc/required libs/kernel headers) fixes that. It's also possible to enable 'VMware automatic kernel modules', an experimental feature of VMware Tools, that should automate that process. You can enable it by re-running vwmware-install.pl or running /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
HTH,
Peter.
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