Exit to Windows, in the Virtual Machine menu bar, click Virtual Machines, install the VMWARE TOOLS submenu
Go to Linux system, select System Tools-terminal command su root or su to enter as root
Hanging on the optical drive Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom
If the directory does not exist, create the directory Mkdir/mnt/cdrom
Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom
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On the host, select virtual Machines from the Workstation menu bar > [ install VMware Tools]. |
If an earlier version of VMware Tools is installed, the menu item is [update VMware Tools].
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In the virtual machine, log on to the guest operating system as root, and then open the Terminal window. |
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Run the mount command without parameters to determine whether the Linux distribution version automatically mounts the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image. |
If the CD-ROM device is mounted, the CD-ROM device and its mount point are listed as follows:/dev/cdrom on/mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (Ro,nosuid,nodev)
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If the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image is not mounted, mount the CD-ROM drive. |
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If the mount point directory does not already exist, create a directory. |
Mkdir/mnt/cdrom some Linux distribution versions use different mount point names. For example, some distribution versions of the mount point are/media/vmware Tools, not /mnt/cdrom. Modify the command to reflect the conventions used by your distribution version.
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Mount the CD-ROM drive. |
Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom Some versions of Linux use different device names or organize in different ways/ Dev directory. If the CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom, or if the CD-ROM mount point is not /mnt/cdrom, modify the command to reflect the conventions used by your distribution version.
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Go to the working directory, such as/ tmp. |
cd/tmp
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Before installing VMware Tools, remove any previous vmware-tools-distrib directories. |
The location of this directory depends on the location that you specified when you performed the installation earlier. Typically, this directory is located in thethe/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.
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List the contents of the mount point directory, and note the file name of the VMware Tools tar Setup program. |
LsMount-point
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Unzip the Setup program. |
Tar zxpf/mnt/cdrom/vmwaretools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz Valuex.x.x is the product version number, andyyyy is the build number of the product release version. If you attempt to perform a tar installation on top of an RPM installation, or if you perform an RPM installation on a tar installation, the Setup program detects a previous installation and must convert the Setup database format before continuing.
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If necessary, unmount the CD-ROM image. |
Umount/dev/cdrom you do not need to unmount the image if the Linux distribution version is automatically mounted on the CD-ROM.
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Run the Setup program and configure VMware Tools. |
CD Vmware-tools-distrib./vmware-install.pl Typically, run after you run the setup filevmware-config-tools.pl configuration file.
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If the default values match your configuration, follow the prompts to accept the default values. |
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Follow the instructions at the end of the script. |
Depending on the features used, these instructions may include restarting the X session, restarting the network connection, re-logging, and starting the VMware user process. Alternatively, you can reboot the guest operating system to complete all of these tasks. Next steps
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