Joe et al., Apparently my problem was a little more severe.... My WinXPPro guest was originally created under FC1 (where my kernel was booting with the parameter of hdc=ide-scsi). I did a fresh install of FC2 and copied my home directory along with the old WinXPPro Guest VM. I reinstalled VMWare 4.5.1 and it worked fine under the original FC2 kernel (or so I believed....). However, it still believed my CDROM was SCSI not IDE since I was now running a 2.6 kernel. Anyways, I had yet to use the CD under the VM since my needed apps were all there and network connectivity worked..... So it turns out that my inability to "upgrade VMWare Tools" was introduced when I first upgraded to FC2.... Anyway, it turns out that yes the new version of VMWare 4.5.2 build 8848 is fine (at least for me) under FC2 as a host. To fix my problem, on a WinXPPro guest, I simply needed to uninstall VMWare Tools from the guest, reboot the VM, and then the menu option of VM - Install VM Tools auto-launched the D:\setup.exe just fine. Apparently resetting itself to use the IDE component to access the CD instead of SCSI. BTW, another symptom I noticed before fixing this was that under the VM Guest (WinXPPro), when I looked under My Computer the "Devices with Removable Storage" did not report itself as a CD Drive but simply as a disk. Anywho, hopefully this will help some of you out. I am not sure about the pre-linking problem as I have not made any changes from the default FC2, and life (knock on wood) seems to be progressing.... though I do think I will wait a day or two before jumping on today's kernel release (435). HTH, --Rob On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 22:44, Joe Conway wrote: > Robert Locke wrote: > > I am running into the same problem with a WinXPPro guest. When I tried > > to run the D:\setup\setup.exe it told me the drive was not formatted and > > would I like to format it.... > > I had a similar problem. I just mounted the iso image directly, then it > worked fine. In the cdrom device setup, select "Use ISO image", and > browse to /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso. > > HTH, > > Joe >
