CentOS - Jan 2012 - vmware fusion display auto-size problem

Greetings.

I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.  Centos6.2 is a guest. 
The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.

Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was 
working fine.  After 6.2, it has stopped working.

Centos is fully updated to 6.2.  I have tried to install the vmware 
drivers from the repository (via yum), and yum reports I have the 
latest.  Vmware reports I have the latest version of app and linux tools.

I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail.  During 
the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have 
drivers for x.

Anybody else come across this?  Google and vmware sites either do not 
have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.

This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run 
updates until needed?  What is best practice in this config?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Monty

Hi Monty, 
> I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host.
Same here.
> Centos6.2 is a guest. 
Same here.
> The box is a macbook laptop running leopard.
OK, there's a difference - I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. But that
shouldn't make a difference.
> Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was 
> working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working.
Works here. 
> Centos is fully updated to 6.2.
Same here. 
> I have tried to install the vmware  drivers from the repository (via yum),
> and yum reports I have the latest. Vmware reports I have the latest
> version of app and linux tools.
My current versions are: 

  xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64         11.0.3-1.el6 
  xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_64        12.7.0-1.el6
  xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64         11.0.3-1.el6

VMware Tools version is: 

  VMware-Tools-8.8.1-528969

This is the version that was downloaded by Fusion after the upgrade to 4.1.1. 
> I have uninstalled and re-installed vmware tools to no avail.  During 
> the vmware tools install it returns a statement that it does not have 
> drivers for x:
I get the statement that it does not install X drivers since there are drivers
installed by the distribution, but resizing works fine, so the drivers should be
up-to-date.
  
  Detected X server version 1.10.4
  Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.
  Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.
> Anybody else come across this?  Google and vmware sites either do not 
> have any info, or I am asking the wrong question.
> 
> This being my first foray into vmware, is it advisable not to run 
> updates until needed?  What is best practice in this config?
I usually install all updates provided by CentOS (the VMs I run on Fusion are
mostly test systems). From time to time, there are kernel updates that are not
compatible with VMware Tools, but usually a reconfiguration (with installed
gcc/required libs/kernel headers) fixes that. It's also possible to enable
'VMware automatic kernel modules', an experimental feature of VMware
Tools, that should automate that process. You can enable it by re-running
vwmware-install.pl or running /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
 
HTH, 

  Peter.