I am trying to copy the files that make up an application from an FC17 VMware VM to the HOST so that it they can be moved to a later version of Fedora (probably v43 or v44) in a new VM. My problem is that the current FC17 VM does not have a copy of the Tools software.
I have tried VMware and open-vm-tools but have been unable to find a version that will work with FC17.
Edited your title to avoid any confusion. The “Fedora Core” label was used for the main Fedora product up until Fedora Core 6. Then we had Fedora Linux 7, or just Fedora 7.
Now we have CoreOS, which is an atomic OS, and not the one you have on your VM.
This is apparently a new approach to the problem discussed here.
I link it here for full context.
Based on the discussion my very strong suggestion to @atishtum would be to first clone that installation of f17 from the VM. Then attempt to upgrade the f17 software (on the clone) to later versions one step at a time and test that his desired ccmm software still works with each upgrade. Since this is f17 and not core as initially noted the upgrades should be relatively simple
One of the biggest issues shown is that this is a VM on windows using VMWare so the files are not the same as seen with a VM on linux using QEMU/KVM libvirt hypervisor software. It should be possible to clone the VM though I have no idea how to do that since VMWare is involved and I know nothing about management of that proprietary hypervisor.
Ask Vmware. That’s proprietary software included in the vmware workstation product. But I don’t understand why you want to do this? You have the F17 VM. Have backups ready in case this VM get’s damaged.
Otherwise, on a new VM (let’s say F44) you’ll want to install the latest vmware tools if open-vm-tools don’t match your requirements.
Can’t you share a folder from the host system (smb) or attach an external USB to the vm?
ah. create a tar archive and then sftp user@some_linux_box or another linux VM on the same NAT network
you could also temporarily enable ftp server on the windows host and transfer the archive via ftp.
If the Fedora 17 repos don’t provide open-vm-tools, you should be able to use the “legacy” proprietary VMware Tools installer. You can download it from Broadcom here: https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/tools/frozen/linux . These packages are still available for use on older Linux distros/kernels that didn’t provide open-vm-tools.
There should be no reason to use the “proprietary” VMware Tools packages on any current Fedora release. The proprietary tools Linux packages haven’t been updated for years – and they contain bugs/security issues. They aren’t tested or supported by VMware/Broadcom on current Linux distributions. open-vm-tools are recommended by Broadcom/VMware when running Linux under any VMware hypervisor.
you’re right. I confused that with vmware tools for windows.