How to install VMware Tools in Red Hat Linux 5

Red Hat Linux 5 How to install VMware ToolsAfter VMware is installed, VMware Tools is not installed by default. After Linux is started, wmware tools is not installed on this guest is displayed in the status bar of VMware. choose "install wmware tools" from VM menu. (You can use the [VM]-> [install wmware tools] menu to install a virtual tool ). Install VMware Tools Procedure :1. in the graphic interface, press CTRL + ALT + F1 to enter the Linux text interface. if you use Linux text to install linux from the beginning, you do not need this step. 2. enter linux.3. press CTRL + ALT as the root user to enter the master operating system, and click the installation VM tool sub-menu under the virtual menu. menu: VM-> install VMware Tools .... (Virtual Machine-> install VMware Tools ...) 4. click the "Install" button in the "pop-up dialog box" to confirm the installation of VMware tools.5. click the Linux interface to go to linux.6. use the following command to mount the optical drive device. Pay attention to the Case sensitivity. (If/mnt does not have a corresponding directory, you can create it using the mkdir command)

Mount-T iso9660/dev/CDROM/mnt/CDROM

 

 

 

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CD/mnt/CDROM

Enter the/mnt/CDROM folder;

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Ls

Use the following command to display the content in the folder.

You will find two files: VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm and VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz. This is the linux package for VMware Tools. (6.0.3-80004 is the version number, which may be different)

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Rpm-IVH VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm

Run the following command to directly run the RPM package.

 

Preparing... ######################################## # [100%] 1: vmwaretools ####################################### ### [100%]

You will see the installation progress:

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CD/usr/bin

Run the following command to enter the/usr/bin directory.

 

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Ls *. pl

Use the following command to find the vmware-config-tools.pl file.

 

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/Vmware-config-tools.pl

Run vmware-config-tools.pl files.

13. Setting the resolution is simple. You can see it at a Glance. This will not be a waste of time. 14. After installation, you can set a shared folder on the host. Click [VM]-> [setting]-> [Options]-> [share folders], click Add on the right, and select host directory 15. in Linux, enter "/mnt/HGFS" to see the shared directory 16. next, you can install the software you want. For tomcat in Linux 5, the JDK installation method is being organized... Please note! By onebodysoftware@hotmail.com