VMware 4.x and FC2T2 - no X - X worked for FC2T1

[Jeremy A. Rosengren]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> I am trying to setup the GUI for my vmware installation of test2 and 
> cannot get X to work yet.
> 
> I am able to retrieve updates using up2date and downloaded the xorg-x11 
> updates. It was still installing the new xorg-x11 packages when the 
> workday was done. I haven't tried to setup X with the newest rawhide 
> packages yet.
> 
> The strange thing was that the installer worked fine in the GUI mode and 
> completed successfully. I was surprised that X didn't start for 
> firstboot. I didn't check if xfs was running or not. (post-install)
> 
> I did not enable SELinux for this installation. The driver that X wants 
> to use is the VMware driver.
> 
> Any clues to either getting X to eventually work with newer versions of 
> certain rpms would be appreciated.
> 
> This is on a Dell 2.4 GHz processor. I'm not sure how vmware emulates 
> hardware without the toolkit installed. I only started using vmware 
> recently.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 

The reason X under VMware doesn't work in FC2T2 is because the 
vmware-config-tools.pl setup script hasn't been modified to search for 
Xorg -- it still attempts to look for the XFree86 version and ends up 
failing because XFree86 isn't there.

There's a line in the script (which I don't have in front of me or I'd 
paste the text) that searches for the XFree86 version or returns 0.0.0. 
  If you change the 0.0.0 to 4.4.0, then /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl 
script will complete.

Note:  the vmware-config-tools.pl script still has a problem building 
the vmhgfs module, but that doesn't pertain to getting X to run and can 
be ignored until VMware fixes things.

-- jeremy