Install VMware Tools in Linux

Before starting, make sure that the virtual machine is turned on and the operating system is running. My virtual machine is installed with VMware.
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1. Select VM> install VMware Tools on the host. If you have installed earlier versions of vmwaretools, the menu item is changed to VMware Tools. If you have installed the current version of VMware Tools, the menu item is changed to reinstall VMware.
Tools.

2. log on to Linux as the root user.

3. Manually mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image if your Linux release does not automatically mount the disc.
A. If the/mnt/CDROM directory does not exist, create: mkdir/mnt/CDROM
B. Mount the CD-ROM drive.
Some Linux distributions use different device names or have different/dev directories. If your CD-ROM drive is not/dev/CDROM or the mount point of the CD-ROM is not in/dev/CDROM, modify the command to change: Mount/dev/CDROM
/Mnt/CDROM

4. Change the working directory (for example,/tmp directory): CD/tmp

5. If a previous installation exists, delete the previous vmware-tools-distrib directory. The location of this directory depends on your previous installation, which is often placed in/tmp/vmware-Tools

6. decompress the installer:
Tar zxpf/mnt/CDROM/vmwaretools-<XXX>-<yyyy> .tar.gz
The value <XXX> is the product version number and <yyyy> is the number of product releases.

7. Uninstall the CD-ROM image as needed: unmount/dev/CDROM
If your Linux release will automatically mount the CD-ROM, You Don't Have To uninstall the image.

 
8. Run the vmwaretools installer.
CD vmware-tools-distrib
/Vmware-install.pl
For issues on the command line on the screen, press enter to accept the default value. The configuration file vmware-config-distrib.

9. If you are updating VMware Tools, restart the virtual machine or manually reload pvscsi and vmxnet

And the vmxnet3 Linux kernel module. Install tools. pl and run it.

 

 

10. If you reload these modules and cause network interruption to the virtual machine, run the following command to restore the network:
/Etc/init. d/network stop
Rmmod vmxnet
Modprobe vmxnet
/Etc/init. d/network start

11. log out of the root account and exit.

12. (optional) Start your graphical interface.

13. On the X terminal, run the following command to start the VMware user process: vmware-user

To change the default VMware tool configuration options, open the VMware tool on the control panel.