A simple message to myself. When installing a Debian Lenny 5.0.1 KDE guest in VMWare Workstation hosted on Windows XP, a few steps are required in order to move into and out of the guest without the ctrl-alt mouse release sequence:
- apt-get install build-essential on the guest
- apt-get install linux-headers-...
- build and install the VMWare toolkit in the guest
- add 'Option "CorePointer"' to the mouse section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- add 'Option "CoreKeyBoard"' to the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- restart KDE
A visit to a VMWare Community describes a couple of additional steps for getting the VMWare Shared Folders (HGFS) Share to work inside of Lenny 5.0.1 as well. Basically, in the /etc/fstab file, which VMWare updates when you perform a tool install, append ',uid=1000,gid=1000' to the 'ttl=5' portion of the .host line, so it looks something like:
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
The actual value to be used in place of 1000 is what ever your uid,gid are for your current window session. This an be determined at the command line by:
echo ${UID}
Without the uid/gid values in the fstab file, the share is made available for the root user. Anyway, after the restart, by using the file explorer, go to /mnt/hgfs to see the volumes.
