Hi Monty,
I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.
Same here.
Centos6.2 is a guest.
Same here.
The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.
OK, there's a difference - I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. But that shouldn't make a difference.
Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working.
Works here.
Centos is fully updated to 6.2.
Same here.
I have tried to install the vmware drivers from the repository (via yum), and yum reports I have the latest. Vmware reports I have the latest version of app and linux tools.
My current versions are:
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_64 12.7.0-1.el6 xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6
VMware Tools version is:
VMware-Tools-8.8.1-528969
This is the version that was downloaded by Fusion after the upgrade to 4.1.1.
I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail. During the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have drivers for x:
I get the statement that it does not install X drivers since there are drivers installed by the distribution, but resizing works fine, so the drivers should be up-to-date.
Detected X server version 1.10.4 Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used. Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
Anybody else come across this? Google and vmware sites either do not have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.
This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run updates until needed? What is best practice in this config?
I usually install all updates provided by CentOS (the VMs I run on Fusion are mostly test systems). From time to time, there are kernel updates that are not compatible with VMware Tools, but usually a reconfiguration (with installed gcc/required libs/kernel headers) fixes that. It's also possible to enable 'VMware automatic kernel modules', an experimental feature of VMware Tools, that should automate that process. You can enable it by re-running vwmware-install.pl or running /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
HTH,
Peter.