Autofit Guest Not Working Fedora 9

[aaronharrison]

Hi

I have a Fedora 9 VM in which I've installed VMware tools, but the autofit guest function doesn't work...

Using my extremely rudimentary Linux skills, I've figured out that there is an extra vmware-user process running. The process that launches when I log in seems unhappy, in that the process ID changes regularly. If it then kill the oldest process, autofit immediately springs to life.

So - question is: what launches the first process, and how can I prevent that from happening?

Thanks All

[mbogdanovFSU]

After my upgrade to 7.1.4 build-385536, I too am having this problem on Ubuntu 10.10

[AWo]

Please post the output from "ps -e | grep vm" and "lsmod | grep vm".

AWo

[mbogdanovFSU]

Thanks for your response:

mbogdanov@localhost:~$ ps -e | grep vm

  491 ?        00:00:00 vmmemctl

1421 ?        00:00:12 vmtoolsd

1675 ?        00:00:20 vmware-user-loa

mbogdanov@localhost:~$ lsmod | grep vm

vmblock                12995  1

vmhgfs                 56887  0

vmware_balloon          4799  0

vmci                   31639  1 vsock

vmxnet                 18712  0

[AWo]

Have you tried to set the start of the VMware Tools to a later point? Increasing the script number of the init start script.

AWo

[mbogdanovFSU]

I did and it did not make a difference, but the following commands fixed it:

> sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-vmware

> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vmware