I have the same problem under Mandriva 2009.1 for which I created open-vm-tools
packages and dkms config
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50889
My last comment states that everything works except drag and drop.
Regards,
Olivier.
Le vendredi 12 juin 2009 17:23:43 Erich Neuwirth, vous avez écrit :
>
> I was able to compile and install the complete set of tool on Fedora 11.
> There is 1 problem remaining.
> According to the docs a vmblock should be installed as a kernel module
> and it should be visible in /proc/fs/vmblock containing 2 nodes dev and
> mountPoint.
> I do not get these nodes.
> After a first installation,
> When I dragged a file from the Windows XP host to
> the VMWare workstation 6.5 running Fedora 11 as a client, I got an error
> message. When I clicked retry, the file was copied.
> So I did a second installation, and now drag and drop does not work at
> all any more.
>
> I can mount the host file system under /mnt/hgfs
> and clipboard copy and paste also works from the host to the client.
> So parts of the installation are OK.
>
>
>
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