I have searched the forum and not found any information about installing vmware tools on fedora 12.

I am familiar with how to do it on Ubuntu but did not even get any results on google for installing vmware tools on fedora 12 ...

I did find this guide for fedora 7 though: http://vmetc.com/2007/10/26/installing- ... -fedora-7/

I do not want to botch my first fedora install so can anyone comment on the link above as a guide for fedora 12?

Without vmware tools I cannot take snapshots etc which I find to be very useful when setting up a new system

yeah... i've done it. you need the compilers... once they are installed, run the vmware-tools-config.pl via the terminal
you may have to do it a few times ie keep pressing enter (10+ times) when it asks and it will go in.

first, i use fusion 2.0 on a mac (soon to run vmware server on my hda).

i can do snapshots with fedora 12 and even dynamically resize the vm's resolution.

- i went to the menu to install vmware tools.
- a window showed up with /media/VMWare Tools
- i untarred the tarball
- cd vmware-tools
- in a separate window, i install gcc: yum install gcc
- install the kernel devel: yum install kernel-PAE-devel (i had to match the version)
- ./vmware-install.pl
- i had to use /usr/src/kernel/2.6......

i ended up getting a "poll_initwait" issue ...

i think i solved this or a similar issue in another machine where i was running vmware server natively. but i did not jot things down

if you solve it, i am sure it will be useful in the near future.

Thanks very much for the replies

I have successfully installed vmware tools!

Looking forward to seeing what Amahi can do now!

http://www.crazyhawt.com/2010/01/25/quick-guide-installing-vmware-tools-with-fedora-12/

Here's a very quick guide to installing vmware tools on Fedora 12. We even got referenced in the article.