Yes.. I finally got it working.. not granting this issue much time, it took a while for me to have my Fedora 9 machine working within a VMWare workstation session…
What was wrong? The mouse pointer was not synchronized well. The guest ‘saw’ my pointer on other places than where my actual mouse was.
The solution? as suggested by this blog, I modified the xorg.conf, and voila, I had it going.. now I can continue my Fedora Directory server quest while using Gentoo Linux as my host machine.
Thanks, tapman!