CentOS 6.3 Installation VMware Tools

1 in the VMware graphical interface, set the CentOS CD drive to C:\Program Files\vmware\vmware Workstation\linux.iso, based on your VM installation directory;  2 then, start the CentOS   3 Boot, mount the optical drive mount-t auto/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom This command is to mount the CentOS cdrom in the/mnt/cdrom directory, you can access the contents of the;  Possible issues:/mnt/cdrommount:mount Point/mnt/cdrom does not exist--/mnt/cdrom directory does not exist and needs to be created first.  [[email protected]/]# cd/mnt[[email protected]/]# mkdir-p/mnt/cdrom  --Create/mnt/cdrom directory [[email  protected]/]# mount-t auto/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom  --Mount CentOS cdrom Mount Mount:block Device/dev/cdrom is write-p rotected, mounting read-only-mount success.  4 use the files in the optical drive to install  [[email protected]/]# cd/mnt/cdrom[[email protected]/]# ls-a[[email  Protected]/]# CP vmwaretools-8.6.1-19175.tar.gz/tmp[[email protected]/]# cd/tmp[[email protected]/]# tar ZXPF vmwaretools-8.6.1-19175.tar.gz[[email protected]/]# CD vmware-tools-distrib[[email protected] vmware-tools-distrib]#./vmware-install.plcreating a new installerThe database using the TAR3 format. installing the content of the package.  # installation process screen, all use the default value, always press Enter to the right &nbs p; until it appears: to use the vmxnet driver, restart networking using the following commands:/etc/init.d/network stoprmmod PCNET32RMM OD vmxnetdepmod-amodprobe vmxnet/etc/init.d/network start enjoy, --the VMware team  appears above, the basic installation is complete!  5 shutdown-r now reboot  6 after restarting the computer again, we will notice that when we leave the Guest OS, we no longer need to press "ctrl + alt" and we'll share the Host OS's Data folder to Guest OS Use, (vm)→(settings) Note: The lower left corner will initially show "you do not has VMware tools installed", now that we have VMware tools, we no longer show;  new folders to share : (options)→(shared folders)→(add)(Next) Click (browse), select the folder you want to share, here is the D drive for example, above the "name" you can enter, here is the test for example "enable this share"enable this share   go smoothly, we can see the Data folder we just shared with the"/mnt/hgfs"folder    Related references:CentOS cdrom mount using mount command http://os.51cto.com/art/201001/178745.htm [CentOS] install VMware toolshttp:// xxjcom.blog.51cto.com/259691/48462 How to install VMware Tools on CentOS? (OS) (Linux) (CentOS) (VMware) http://www.cnblogs.com/oomusou/archive/2008/06/06/centos_vmware_tools.html Linux installation VMware toolshttp:// Www.ilegal.cn/POST/33.html

CentOS 6.3 Installation VMware Tools