Install VMware-Tools for Fedora: How-to Install VMWare Tools on Linux Fedora 17 Lxde Easy & Step-by-Step Visual-Guide

This Easy & Step-by-Step Visual-Guide Show How-to Install the VMWare Tools for Linux Fedora 17 Lxde i686/x8664 Desktop.

With the VMWare Tools Installed and Working You will have you a Much More Pleasant Journey with Linux Fedora 17 Lxde on VMWare

With the VMWare Tools Installed you Dispose of Easy-Resizing and Also of Shared Folders to Easy Exchanging Files with the Host System!

Just Take the Time of Carefully Looking, Reading and Following the Detailed Instructions and Commands Contained in this Guide.

You Find Detailed VMWare Installation Troubleshooting Link 2 the Post Bottom.

Open a Terminal Window:
Install the Prerequisite Packages
Login as SuperUser
```
su
```
Insert the SuperUser password
Install Needed Packages
```
yum install gcc make
```
Update the Kernel
```
yum update kernel
```
Reboot!
```
reboot
```
Install the Kernel Headers
```
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
```
Start the Process of Downloading and Mounting the VMWare Tools CD with:
- VMWare Fusion
  Virtual Machine > Install VMWare Tools
- VMWare Workstation
  VM > Install VMWare Tools
May be you will need to Wait Until VMWare has Provided to Downloading and Mounting the VMWare Tools CD. If the Window with the VMWare Tools Do Not Appear you will Need to Manually Disconnect the CD/DVD in: Virtual Machines > CD/DVD(IDE) > Disconnect CD/DVD And just Re-Starting the VMWare Tools Installation...
After the Virtual CD Containing the Tools Should Pop-Up
Double-Click to Open the VMWare Tools Archive
Extract Into the /tmp Directory
VMWare Tools Installation:
- Access the Target Directory
```
cd /tmp/vmware*
```
- To Get Enabled the Shared Folders Apply Patch:
  
  VMWare-Tools Patch
  
  Contains Easy-Patch+Instructions 4 VMWareTools Installation on Linux Distros.
- Execute Installation Script
  Start VMWare Tools Installation
```
./vmware-install.pl
```
  Follow to Accept All the Default Proposed Settings...
After a little while the installation should complete successfully :)
But if Instead you Get: Execution aborted

Then Consult Troubleshooting...

VMWare Tools Troubleshootings

Contains detailed Troubleshooting of VMWareTools Installation on Linux Distros.
This is the Sign of Success! Congratulations :)
Now to Enable VMWare Tools without Logout
```
/usr/bin/vmware-user
```