Greetings.
I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host. Centos6.2 is a guest. The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.
Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working.
Centos is fully updated to 6.2. 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.
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.
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?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Monty
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.
On 1/4/12 7:03 AM, Peter Eckel wrote:
<snip> 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
<snip>
HTH,
Peter.
Peter,
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
Thanks,
Monty
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
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Thanks.
On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
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I had to do a reinstall of the xorg vmware drivers via yum. vmware tools apparently didn't install them right, for whatever reason.
Thanks to all for the help and advice.
Monty
Hi Monty,
Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr enabled on my box.
they are from @base.
I doubt that the VMware Tools installer installs them at all. Possibly without a current version of the VMware tools the CentOS installation process doesn't recognise it runs on a VMware instance, and so the drivers don't get installed. Just a wild guess, though.
Cheers,
Peter.
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