OpenSuse Guest in VMWare

Tested at OpenSuse 10.0 and 10.1

* Choose the Development group, press Enter to open it, and add gcc, gcc-c++, and kernel-source. * copy the vmware-tools%gz% file from the mounted VMWARE-Tools CD to /tmp

su -
cd /tmp
tar xvfz VMWareTools%gz%
cd vmware-tools-distrib
 
./vmware-install.pl
# proceed until you have to answer yes/no to launch vmware-config-tools.pl
# Before running VMWare Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command:
# "/usr/bin/vmware-config.tools.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [NO]
# select NO
 
cd /tmp
wget http://www.edilauer.com/files/vmware-tools-any-update1.tar.gz
tar xvzf vmware-tools-any-update1.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-any-update1
./runme.pl
## AGAIN proceed until you have to answer yes/no to launch vmware-config-tools.pl
## select NO
 
cd /tmp
wget http://www.edilauer.com/files/vmware-config-tools.zip
unzip vmware-config-tools.zip
cp vmware-config-tools.pl /usr/bin/
 
cd /usr/bin
./vmware-config-tools.pl

Fedora tweak: # ln -s linux