If you have tried to install VMware Tools on a VMware ESX (probably Workstation too) Fedora 14 virtual machine, then you probably noticed that there are no suitable pre-compiled VMware Tools modules available for the kernel version that the Fedora runs and also it is not that easy to make the modules to compile from the sources.

First of all, the VMware Tools configuration script is looking for header files of the running kernel. It goes without saying, that the kernel-devel package must be present on the system to proceed further. However, the configuration script is looking for a variable named UTS_RELEASE, which is not present in the latest Fedora kernel headers – the utsversion.h is just not there. A simple workaround for this is to add the UTS_RELEASE definition into version.h header file. Continue reading “Fedora 14 on VMware and VMware Tools” »