Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > Hello, I'm running VMWare Fusion 2 beta and trying to get > open-vm-tools installed in a Fedora 9 VM. > > I first tried the download on the main page but ran into the > procps header problem, so I rebuilt the Fedora 8 RPM at > http://www.poolshark.org/dkms-open-vm-tools/ > dkms-open-vm-tools-0-1.2008.05.15.fc8.src.rpm
I've been working on a more recent version of my dkms packages. The 09-03 release is the first in a long time that actually compiles on rawhide (after working around an icu bug, bug 461348, will be pushed to rawhide in a few days), although it's still far from working. Some of the issues i ran into: - 'make install' tries to 'chown' some files (in the hgfsmounter install-exec-hook). This will fail on most packaging system, since packages are rarely built as root. I don't think the chown is necessary anyway. - The module installation ignores DESTDIR, and so will also fail as part of an non-root RPM build. - mount.vmhgfs gets installed in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin - after I got everything built and prepared, guestd seems to hang on startup, using up 100% cpu. Vmware workstation reports 'Your VM tools is out of date' (i'm using workstation 6.5 on linux host). Is there a way to compile in more debug information that I could report ? - can't move the mouse out of the VM window. Somehow Xorg is not using the vmmouse driver ? The system runs without an xorg.conf file (as is the norm nowadays), but it should have selected the right drivers by default. - running vmware-user yields the same hang problem as guestd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
