How to install VMware Tools in vmwarevm Linux

To share folders with windows in Linux in VMware, you need to install VMware Tools. However, if you use the RPM format, the installation may fail, and you need to install it manually.
1. Enter Linux as root
2. log out of windows, click the Enable VMware Tools sub-menu under the setting menu, and confirm the installation.
3. Use the virtual optical drive to load the ISO image. The path is C:/program files/vmware workstation/programs/Linux. ISO.
4. Run Mount-T iso9660/dev/CDROM/MNT in Linux.
Load the CDROM device, then if you enter the/mnt directory, you will find an additional file: vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz. This is the Linux software package of wmware tools, which we saw when we used winiso to open the Linux. ISO file.
CP/mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz/tmp
Copy the package to the tmp directory of Linux.
Umount/dev/CDROM
Uninstall CDROM.
CD/tmp
Enter the tmp directory
Tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz
Decompress the package to the vmware-Linux-tools directory (with the same name as the file name) by default ).
CD vmware-Linux-Tools
Enter the decompressed directory
./Install. pl (slightly different here)
Run the installation command.
In this case, install prompts you whether to back up the previous configuration file. We recommend that you select "Y ".

Share Windows folders:

When the Virtual Machine Linux system is started, go to the VMware menu/Vm/settings/options/shared folders.

Create a shared folder and set the name in Linux. Then, you can view the folder in/mnt/HGFS of the Linux virtual machine.