[SOLVED] Installing VM Tools

Ian D · 01-26-2012, 06:09 AM

I have VMWare Player 3.1.5 and on my VM I have Fedora 16.

I have installed the VM Tools with partial success.

The first problem was that the Config Tools wanted to find gcc - but I was able to install that and no problem.

The second problem is that the Config Tools is "Searching for a valid kernel header path" (and failing to find a valid one. I see that i appear to have kernel-headers-3.2.1-3.fc16 installed - but that does not appear to be what is required.

What should I add?

Thaks in advance.

eco · 01-26-2012, 06:12 AM

You probably need to install the kernel sources so that it can use gcc to compile a driver based on your kernel.

kvyn · 03-14-2012, 05:41 AM

i have the same issue i've also been trying to get openvmtools on here ...
same problem.
Anyone managed to get this done ?
If so do you care to advise on the steps taken to get VMtools working on fc16.

Cheers