[CentOS-virt] CentOS 5.1 guide for VMware Fusion

[Bradley Sepos]

On Feb 18, 2008 12:14 AM, Daniel de Kok <me at danieldk.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/18/08, Bradley Sepos <bradleysepos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently created a VM running CentOS 5.1 x86-64 for development
> > purposes. Along the way, I found a number of fixes to various issues
> > one can experience under VMware and decided to turn my documentation
> > into a general guide that others might benefit from. I have not found
> > any guides for VMware Fusion on OS X, so I figured it is a worthwhile
> > endeavor. It is likely that most or all of this guide applies to
> > VMware Workstation as well.
>
> Looks great! How about describing how to install Johnny Hughes'
> open-vm-tools packages, rather than manually installing the vmware
> tools?:
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2007-December/000158.html
>
> With kind regards,
> Daniel

Thanks Daniel, I will have to look into this when I set up another
machine. The author describes them as "very much" experimental... are
you currently running these tools? If so, what benefits are you seeing
above the proprietary package?

Regards,
Bradley~