Linux system installation VMware tools

VMware Tools is also very useful in two different systems to drag and drop files, even text copy and paste, powerful.

Don't say much nonsense ...

Although the installation Help documentation for VMware Tools is well written, the actual operation found that ... There's still a pit.

1. First the Virtual machine toolbar click virtual machine → install vmware-tools install/Reinstall Vmware-tools

(Why reinstall, one is to upgrade the new version, and another is to install a new system, such as I used to be ubuntu10.10, between Windows and Linux directly drag files easily, so love vmware-tools. But when I re-created a new ubuntu12.04 and found it very uncomfortable to use, can not drag files directly from Windows to Linux, and thought it should be the problem in the Vmware-tools. ）

2.vmware-tools is ready to be installed, inside the CDROM, it asks our Linux system to load it ... So

3. 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)

4. If the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image is not mounted, mount the CD-ROM drive.

A. 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.

B. Mount the CD-ROM drive. Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom

Some Linux versions use different device names or different ways to organize the/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.

5. The above sections just make sure that when you open the/mnt/cdrom, you can see a compressed package whose name is probably vmwaretools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz, yes, that's the file we want.

6. Unzip the installation

Tar xvzf vmwaretools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz

Well, the pit came, suddenly found in this directory can only read can not write, that is to say I directly decompression failed.

It's okay, you can read and copy this file.

7. Copy the Vmwaretools installation package to a directory

CP-RV vmwaretools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz /tmp

　　

8. Go to the directory to unzip again, install

　　

Tar xvzf vmwaretools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz

Wait for decompression to complete

./vmware-install.pl

Done ~

Linux system installation VMware tools