Quick Guide: Installing VMware Tools with Fedora 12

After installing Fedora 12 on a new virtual machine with VMware (I use Fusion on the Mac), the first thing you’ll likely want to do is install VMware tools. You need to install a few packages in order to make the installation seamless, however. There are countless posts around the internet with people looking for help with this. Here’s a quick 15 step guide to getting up and running.

1. Download Fedora 12.
2. Install the OS.
3. Boot up the virtual machine.
4. Open up the Terminal.
5. Run “su” and type your root password to gain administrative control.
6. Run “yum update” to update all the packages to the newest version.
7. Reboot.
8. Open up the Terminal.
9. Run “yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc mkinitrd”
10. Reboot.
11. Click the menu option in your VMware application to install VMware tools. This should put a compressed folder on the desktop.
12. Expand the zip file and using the terminal, navigate into the newly created directory.
13. As the root user, type “./vmware-install.pl”
14. When it asks you questions and prompts you for a response, just hit enter. Everything should be properly configured at this point.
15. Reboot when the script finishes. That’s it!