CentOS 6.5 installation VMware Tools

System Description: Win7 flagship 64-bit system +vmware workstation10+centos6.5 (Win7 system with VMware WORKSTATION10 virtualization software installed, With the CentOS6.5 installed on the virtualization software, and now I want to pass data between the Win7 system and the CentOS system, I just need to install the VMware Tools tool on the virtual machine and start the shared directory.

1. Installation Steps

1. VMware Tools Installation

1.1 Select the Linux virtual machine for which you want to install VMware Tools, then click the "Virtual Machine (M)" button at the top of VMware WORKSTATION10 and select the "Install VMware Tools" button, and the installation package for VMware Tools will be placed by default in the/ The Dev/cdrom directory.

1.2 Enter the command line on the Linux system to create a directory to mount the CDROM.

[Email protected]/]# Mkdir/mnt/cdrom

1.3 Mount the/dev/cdrom directory to the newly created/mnt/cdrom directory so that the installation package for VMware Tools can be seen in the/mnt/cdrom directory, but the installation package is read-only and must be copied to the user's own directory for normal use.

[Email protected]/]# Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom

1.4 Copy the installation package for VMware tools in the/mnt/cdrom directory to the user's own directory, such as the/root directory

[Email protected]/]# cd/mnt/cdrom/
[email protected] cdrom]# CP Vmwaretools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz/root

1.5 Unzip the toolkit file

[Email protected] cdrom]# Cd/root

[Email protected] ~]# TAR-XZVF vmwaretools-9.6.2-1688356.tar.gz

1.6 After decompression, in this directory, a Vmware-tools-distrib folder will appear, enter the folder, execute the vmware-install.pl command

[Email protected] ~]# CD vmware-tools-distrib/
[Email protected] vmware-tools-distrib]#./vmware-install.pl

1.7 Then change the software will automatically install, of course, the installation process will ask the installation directory, installation module, etc., if you want to set your own, you can set according to the prompts, otherwise, you can all press ENTER.

2. Start the shared directory for Win7 and virtual machines

2.1 Select the virtual machine you want to create the shared directory from, then click the "Virtual Machine (M)" button at the top of the VMware Workstation10 and select the "Settings" button to bring up a dialog box.

2.2 Select the Options tab in the Pop-up dialog, click the "Shared Folder" button, set the option on the right to "always enable", and create a folder dedicated to sharing on Win7, and add the folder, click "OK" button.

3. Transferring data using Shared folders

Some files are stored in the shared folder in the Win7 system that you set up, and then accessed in the Linux system, where the access path in Linux is:/mnt/hgfs/the folder name that you created

For example, if the shared folder name I created on Win7 is sharefolder, my actions are as follows:

[Email protected] sharefolder]# cd/mnt/hgfs/sharefolder/

In this directory you can see the files on the Win7, you can also copy files from Linux to this directory, you can also see on the Win7.

CentOS 6.5 installation VMware Tools