Software requirements:

• Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
• VMware workstation 6.5.1
• Fedora 10 64bit

Install packages that are required to build VMware tools:

1

 yum install gcc make kernel-devel</li>

Step by step guide

1. Logon to Fedora, and select “Install VMware Tools” from VM menu
2. After the tool cd was mount, open a terminal window logon as root user and type

   1 2 3

   cd ~ mkdir VMware cd VMWare

3. Type:

   1	cp /media/VMware\ Tools/VMwareTools-7.8.4-126130.tar.gz ./

4. Untar and install by typing:

   1 2 3

   tar zxpf ./VMwareTools-7.8.4-126130.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib/ ./vmware-install.pl

5. Config and build VMware tool modules:

   1	vmware-config-tools.pl

   and type y when prompt to build vmware modules

Restart your guest OS and then you should have vmware tool installed. You should be able to see your shared folder from the host OS.