Fedora: 64 bit vmware error

Error

unable to change virtual machine power state: failed to connect to peer process

run vmware-config.pl and get the following warning:

$ sudo vmware-config.pl 
The following libraries could not be found on your system:
libXtst.so.6

Install libXtst.so.6 and problem fixed.

yum install libXtst-1.0.3-3.fc9.i386

Vmware Guest Clock Issue

The following article explains how to correct it.

Host Power Management Causes Problems with Guest Timekeeping on Linux Hosts

1. turn on sync time with host in vmware tools

2. add the following lines in /etc/vmware/config (2000000 is my machine's highest CPU frequency).

host.cpukHz = 2000000
hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE
tools.syncTime = TRUE