[SOLVED] Fedora 16 - VMware tools

[rhoaste]

Has anyone managed to get VMware tools working for Kernel 3.x for Fedora 16 ?

I get a number of errors during the compile when running the vmware tools install script, after which start-up of the vmware services does not properly occur.

Thanks in advance.

[yngmike]

Nope, looking here as well, somebody please post back if they know.

[rhoaste]

Here's more information on the problem I'm experiencing installing VMware tools:

VM Software: VMware Workstation Version 8
Host OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate X64
Guest OS: Fedora 16 (i386)
Guest Kernel: 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686.PAE

Log from VMware tools install operation is attached.

[John Grant]

You've got further than I did. I've just installed VMware on a Mac (OS-X 10.6) and when I select "install VMware tools" the CD icon goes briefly to black and then back to grey. I tried downloading the tools myself from the VMware website and loading the .iso file into the CD drive directly, but that file seems to date from 2008 and says it needs a GCC compiler which it can't find (though I think it's supposed to be included in Fedora 16; the GCC site only seems to have sources, which aren't much use without a compiler).

I'm only doing all this so I can run Xilinx's development environment on the Mac. I thought Windows was bad, but this is just silly.

[egurski]

There is a patch available for F16's kernel. Try VMware communities first and they should point you to the patch...

or try the following link:

http://www.linuxinsight.com/vmware-w...nel-3.1.0.html

[rhoaste]

Originally Posted by egurski

There is a patch available for F16's kernel. Try VMware communities first and they should point you to the patch...

or try the following link:

http://www.linuxinsight.com/vmware-w...nel-3.1.0.html

Thanks for that. But whatever it was, it didn't work for me.

[parsek77]

Originally Posted by egurski

There is a patch available for F16's kernel. Try VMware communities first and they should point you to the patch...

or try the following link:

http://www.linuxinsight.com/vmware-w...nel-3.1.0.html

Egurski, could you please provide more detail or link from Vmware forum? The patch didn't work for me too, b/c it was looking for a tar archive that couldn't find.
Thanks.

[rhoaste]

Originally Posted by John Grant

... and says it needs a GCC compiler which it can't find (though I think it's supposed to be included in Fedora 16; the GCC site only seems to have sources, which aren't much use without a compiler).

John, it sounds to me as if you don't have the necessary prerequisites in place to install vmware tools:

yum install kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers gcc make
reboot
./vmware-install.pl

Today I did a yum update, and installed the updated VMware Workstation V8.0.1. However there appears to be no change. The installation of vmware tools still doesn't work.

[ediamond]

The patch referenced above is for making the VMware Workstation kernel modules during the WS install process on Linux hosts runing 3.x kernels. There still doesn't seem to be any VMware Tools support for Guest VMs sporting 3.x kernels.

I put a post on the on the VMTN Workstation forum last week but no answers yet. 234 views in 3 days, so there is interest, but it seems everyone else is just as lost. Here's the link to that post, if you're interested (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/336812?tstart=60).

[nippur]

Surprisingly,
VMware tools works fine for me, atm (29 nov 2011) , and out-of-the-box!

Host OS Fedora 14 at 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64
Guest OS Fedora 16 (i386) at 3.1.2-1.fc16.i686, packages fully updated to 29.11.2011
VMware® Player 3.1.4 build-385536 (part of VMware Workstation 7.1.4 build-385536)

compiled very nicely on Fedora 16 although it failed on Fedora 15
All functions (copy paste guest/host, resizing window etc etc) worked just fine.

only that *beep* gnome3-shell, still at fallback

[misa]

I have a variant patch for VMware Fusion 3 (which comes with VMware Tools 8.4.7)

http://people.rpath.com/~misa/patche...-linux3.tar.gz

Use at your own risk, of course, it works for me, Unity included.

If the shell script complains that vmware tools is not installed, you can comment the lines that test $vmver around lines 29-30.

[breimer273]

I know that this is a little bit older but I thought I would post and let people know how I did it. For reference I am running VMware Fusion v3.1.3 on OSX snow leopard as my native OS. Using FC 16 I had to

sudo yum update

to get the latest kernel
then I could

sudo yum install kernel-devel.x86_64

Note that I am running a 64 bit version of Fedora so your command for the 32 bit folks would be (i think)

sudo yum install kernel-devel-.i686

Then vmware tools installed no problem. Also make sure that you have gcc installed.

sudo yum install gcc

[misa]

Still fails here (Snow Leopard, Fusion 3.1.3) after applying all updates. I doubt that running kernel-PAE makes a difference in my case:

/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/request.c:45:32: error: ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function)

[breimer273]

Originally Posted by misa

Still fails here (Snow Leopard, Fusion 3.1.3) after applying all updates. I doubt that running kernel-PAE makes a difference in my case:

/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/request.c:45:32: error: ‘SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function)

That looks like a compile error. How did you initiate the installation?

[misa]

Got Fusion to expose the ISO. Mounted, untarred the tar.gz, then ran the vmware-install.pl (I don't remember the exact file name). At the end of the installation it offered to run the configurator, and that's when it tries to compile modules.