Installing Vmware-tools in Gentoo

1, start the Linux in the virtual machine, (note must be started after the virtual machine). Select the VM option in the menu, which has a subkey that is install VMware Tools, selected. Start the installation.

2, now, you go to the VM menu in the removable devices subkey in the CDROM item, click Edit, open the installation folder of VMware, there are some *.iso ah, OK, follow the previous steps, select Linux.iso as the ISO file.

3, the following is Mount load Linux.iso file.

Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom

Cd/mnt/cdrom

4, to the CDROM folder to extract vmware-tools*.tar.gz

CP vmware-tools*.tar.gz/tmp

Cd/tmp

Tar xzvf vmware-tools*.tar.gz

CD Vmware-tools-distrib

5, MKDIR/ETC/INIT.D/RC{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.D

6./vmware-install.pl

7, rc-update add vmware-tools Default

8, Vmware-tools has been installed successfully, is not very simple AH

Cd/mnt

is not seen a Hgfs folder, which indicates that the installation was successful, the following is about how to set the share, this part is simpler.

Remember the above operation in the VM menu. Right. Next, proceed to the VM menu, select the Setting subkey, and then select Options. Does the left part of the form see a shared folders, if you haven't set it before, it should be disabled.

Select enabled until next power off or suspend, select Add, and select the folder to share with Customer Linux.

Now that you have completed all of your work, you will see the added folder under/mnt/hgfs. Writing files to the specified share folders under Windows can be seen in Linux clients, as well as writing files on Linux that can be seen under Windows and modified.