Re: [open-vm-tools-discuss] open-vm-tools on Fedora 9

[Denis L. <de...@po...>]

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out of date' (i'm using workstation 6.5 on linux host).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.