[Help] RedHat 9 and VMware


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Well first off i am sorry if someones asked this, i did a search and kept getting a flood control error?

Well ok anyways i got VMware 4 the newest build and i installed Linux RedHat 9 on it, its all installed and i can get to the desktop.

My problem is... when it comes to installing VMtools i can't seem to install them i extracted the thing to the Home directory but when i goto install it, i get some prompt box saying about running it in a terminal or run etc. and so i click run and nothing happens ...i am stumped as i have only ever used RedHat 8 before and got the same problem. I really would like this problem fixed so i can actually move about RedHat at a more faster speed and actually do something :p

I'm not completely newb to commands etc so you can use some jargon, i think i have to use Xfree or somethign i'm not sure but please please help.

If this is any help I am running RedHat 9 Workstation with a couple of extra packages on it

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all you have to do is firstly KILL DA X

and install vmware tools

vmtools reconfig the xfree86 so you must kill X first

that's all

way to kill X:

1. goto text mode (ctrl + alt + f1)

2. login with root

3. command: "init 3"

then you install vmware tools

ps: i'm a noobie in linux too

Edited by computerchan

ah by the way, VMWare group recommend the users to install VMWare tools once they finish installing the linux before X is started

but... >.< I can't avoid this with Fedora Core 1....

is it too dumb to show the boot progress with X? wasting time for loading and unloading X...

ah by the way, VMWare group recommend the users to install VMWare tools once they finish installing the linux before X is started

but... >.< I can't avoid this with Fedora Core 1....

is it too dumb to show the boot progress with X? wasting time for loading and unloading X...

You can set your default runlevel to 3. No X.

Well i got VMtools to install after about 10 attempts :p

The mouse is still laggy but i changed it to what i thought was right and its alot faster seems abit laggy still though.

But thanks for your help guys, next on the agenda is to get my network working on it :p i did have it working in RedHat 8

Thanks again!

Woo, i got my connection sharing working. thanks to the little fix to the config files

I am posting this from my RedHat, i would print screen but i'm not to sure how to edit it and make it smaller :D

Thanks for all your help again, now i can play around and break it!

ah by the way, VMWare group recommend the users to install VMWare tools once they finish installing the linux before X is started

but... >.< I can't avoid this with Fedora Core 1....

is it too dumb to show the boot progress with X? wasting time for loading and unloading X...

You don't have to install VMWare Tools with Fedora Core 1.

VMWare Tools is basicly just a videodriver... nothing special. Guess what Fedora Core 1 already had the VMWare display driver built in :)

So no need for VMWare Tools (Y)

You don't have to install VMWare Tools with Fedora Core 1.

VMWare Tools is basicly just a videodriver... nothing special. Guess what Fedora Core 1 already had the VMWare display driver built in :)

So no need for VMWare Tools (Y)

With the VMware Tools SVGA driver installed, Workstation supports significantly faster graphics performance.

The VMware Tools package provides support required for shared folders and for drag and drop operations.

Other tools in the package support synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host, automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor, copying and pasting between guest and host, and improved mouse performance in some guest operating systems.

- A quote that I stole from vmware.com

Correct.

The VMWare SVGA driver is already present in Fedora. So the speeding up of the mouse cursor and stuff like that is already taken care of.

Auto capture/uncapture of the mouse is something you need to install the Tools for indeed.... though I never use it anyways.

Dragging and dropping between guest and host. I solved that by creating a "sharing pool" where both guest and host can drop files in (it is just a shared folder over the LAN).

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