Making X work on RHEL/CEntOS 5 after VMWare P2V Import

Used the VMWare Standalone Converter running on my local machine to import a RHEL/CEntOS 5 Linux system, and afterward, was greeted with the following (this is cli, the gui had it's own errors):

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[root@qa01 ~]# startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.9175
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority


X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux qa01.localdomain 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 6 13:26:04 EST 2010 x86_64
Build Date: 16 November 2009
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.67.el5_4.1
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 20 12:28:27 2011
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
[root@qa01 ~]#
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Some digging online led me to http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf

I realize it probably makes more sense to add the yum repo, but since I was in a hurry, I just pulled the files manually and did a local install.  The files I needed are listed below:

Files are located at: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1/rhel5/x86_64/

IMPORTANT!!! BUILD NUMBERS ARE CRITICAL!!!
      Make sure you get the build number for your version of VMWare and Guest OS

   vmware-tools-nox-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm

   vmware-tools-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-tools-common-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm

   vmware-open-vm-tools-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-nox-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-utilities-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.2-257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-mouse-12.6.4.0-0.257589.el5.x86_64.rpm
   vmware-open-vm-tools-xorg-drv-display-10.16.7.0-0.257589.el5.x86_64.rpm

Commands as follows:

wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1/rhel5/x86_64/<package_name>
    (yes, this has to be done for each rpm)

wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub

rpm --import VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub (this saves you from the --no-gpg-check)

yum localinstall <big_list_of_all_rpms_use_tab_complete>


So, now that you're done with all that, it's time to reboot.  Yes, this is needed (remember that kmod rpm you just installed?).  After the reboot, everything works with X just fine.

And now things work virtually like they did before.  (=