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Subject: how to install vmware tools in linux Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:40 pm
Good day
This article provides steps to install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system
To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system using RPM:
[list="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"] [*]Ensure that your Linux virtual machine is powered on.
[*]If you are running a GUI interface, open a command shell.
[*]Click VM in the virtual machine menu, then click Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools and click OK.
[*]To create a mount point, run:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
[*]To mount the CDROM, run:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
[*]To install VMware Tools using RPM, run:
rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version.rpm
Where <version> is the version of VMware Tools you want to install
To check the existing version of VMware Tools, use the "cd" command to go to /mnt/cdrom/ directory and list the contents of the directory with the command # ls.
Note:You can only perform the install as a root user or by using the sudo command.
[*]To configure VMware Tools for your running kernel, run:
/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
[*]To unmount the CDROM, run:
umount /mnt/cdrom
[*]To end the VMware Tools install, click VM in the virtual machine menu, then clickGuest > End VMware Tools Install