Instal vmware tools fedora 17

I'm rebuilding my home lab which wouldn't be possible without the support from Chesapeake NetCraftsmen! I've had success, and thought I'd share what I learned with you.

If you've ever run a virtual appliance, you've used open-vm-tools. You probably just didn't know it. The image to the right is the give-away. Of course, you'll trade functionality for simplicity: open-vm-tools will provide you with the core functionality of VMTools: the ability to request a graceful shutdown of your guest OS from your vSphere Web Client or god forbid, the vSphere Client.

For now, let's go over the open-vm-tools bit. Now for the good news: open-vm-tools ships with Fedora 19, and will start automatically if Fedora detects that it's running as a VM on VMware software. Pretty easy, right? For Fedora 17 and 18, you'll need to grab the open-vm-tools package through yum: sudo yum install open-vm-tools Then reboot to complete the install and verify that open-vm-tools starts up properly.

This script will walk you through the process of configuring and compiling the VMware Tools. Of course, if you don't have Perl on your system, this file is not going to do much.

Getting Perl is easy: yum -y install perl. And while you're at it, get gcc yum -y install gcc and the kernel headers for the running kernel first, update your system to the latest kernel, then run yum -y install kernel-devel.

Otherwise the configure script which executes after the install script will fail. Like this: Oops. Once you've got Perl, gcc, and kernel-devel loaded, you can run the vmware-install. Unless you have a good reason to, avoid changing the default settings. The script takes a few minutes, and when it's done you'll need to restart your X session to complete the install. Then you'll see this: Tools running and current which is based on a Latin word that means running, so That was a long-winded post for something as simple as a tools install.

But if you're not comfortable with Linux command-line administration, you should be able to get Tools up and running without any problems by following the steps above.

Let me know if this helps, or if you run into trouble. Labels: fedora , vmware. Newer Post Older Post Home.