Installing vmware tools on Fedora 16

Use the following steps to install the vmware tools on a Fedora 16 guest.

-Install Fedora
-Apply all updates
-Reboot

-Install gcc and kernel-devel (if you used the PAE kernel install kernel-PAE-devel)

-copy the vmware tools to /tmp
-un-zip and un-tar the file
-cd to vmware-tools-distrib
-run vmware-install.pl

Provided you successfully installed the dependencies, everything should have installed correctly.