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

[Erich N. <eri...@un...>]

I downloaded the latest sources from the sourceforge site and compiled
myself.


Denis Leroy wrote:
> 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 ?
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