Re: Fedora 11 on VMWare Workstation 6.5 hosted on Windows XP, vmblock problrm

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

On 06/12/2009 05:23 PM, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> 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.

Are you using the open-vm-tools package from RPMFusion ?