VMware Fusion 2 problems with Fedora 9 Linux

[WmCH]

Attempts to run Linux Fedora 9 under Fusion 2 fail:

1) Mouse does not work; keyboard presses do work but not the mouse;

2) The display window occupies the fill width of the screen but the Linux portion is only a small part; thus the character sizes shown are too small to use.

[admin]

Mouse does not work

This is probably either (not likely, symptoms don't match, but you should still read it) or (which we haven't figured out yet but are working on).

The display window occupies the fill width of the screen but the Linux portion is only a small part

Sounds like your guest resolution and/or Tools are messed up. Try reinstalling Tools.

[rm73]

Mouse does not work

This is probably either (not likely, symptoms don't match, but you should still read it) or (which we haven't figured out yet but are working on).

The mouse does indeed work weirdly under Fedora 9 when vmware-tools (VMwareTools-e.x.p-116369.tar.gz) from Fusion 2.0 is installed. No matter if just plain Fedora 9 system from the distribution install DVD or with latest updates to date applied.

The mouse cursor and selection focus (area selected) for example does not match. Moving mouse with (left) mouse button down when visible mouse cursor is center of the display, the selection area is half way center and screen edge at 4 o'clock. The misalignment also changes depending screen location where the mouse cursor is. The movement of the mouse is also quite 'jumpy' and sudden movements hard to predict. FC9 desktop is with this version of vmware-tools unusable unless a workaround can be found.

I get no errors or warnings compiling vmware-tools using otherwise default options and changing just the display size something reasonable. I tried 1400x1050, 1280x800, 1024x768 just to make sure it has anything to with certain resolution.

Shouldn't be hard to verify anybody interested about the issue. Just create a VM mounting Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso, select Linux & Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 settings and install the system and tools with defaults (adding gcc and kernel-devel packages with yum if needed to compile tools) and the symptom shows up.

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

I haven't tested with current test prerelases of next Fedora 10 yet, but wasn't really supprised if the same happens there too. Fedora 8 and below works fine with same vmware-tools though.

Don't know about the other issue first poster claimed.

Message was edited by: rm73

[admin]

Your problem is almost certainly the one mentioned in . Please read it.

[rm73]

Your problem is almost certainly the one mentioned in . Please read it.

Oh my ... How did I miss that in first place!

That's it and workaround works as advertised.

Now I just was left wondering if it was in the FAQ how long or was it added there recently.

It's couple of weeks I tried F9 first and didn't get around the issue and supposed it to be a bug

in Fusion 2.0. Didn't find anything relevant that time from Fedora site nor from these forums and

thought it was still unresolved.

Anyway. Thanks for pointing it out once more.

[Ross_Ibbottson]

Hi all,

I also have experienced the same mouse problem, and when searching for answers came macros the below fix on the Fedora Forum site.

Fedora Forum

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Mouse Fix

Scroll down tothe last comment by sunset, which is reproduces below for your convenience.

Solution was to {on the guest}:

• start a terminal

• telinit 3

• mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.older

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Hope it works for you. I'm about to try it out too.

Cheers

Ross