How to install VMware Tools for Red Hat Linux

VMware Tools is known to be installed in VMware virtual machines to enable file sharing between hosts and virtual machines, while supporting free-drag functionality, and the mouse can move freely before virtual machines and hosts (instead of being released by pressing Ctrl+alt). It also allows the virtual machine screen to be full screen, which is important to make the guest system time of the virtual machine consistent with the host .

So how does the Red Hat Linux system install VMware tools?

The following describes the installation steps for the tool (Vmware-tools) in a Linux environment:

1. In the virtual machine where Linux is installed, click Install Vmware-tools under the Virtual Machines menu.

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2. If it is under the graphical interface, press CTRL + ALT + F1 key to enter the Linux text interface.

If you've installed Linux in Linux Text mode from the beginning, you don't need this step.

3. Enter Linux as root.

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4. Use the following command line to load the optical drive device, note case. (if there is no corresponding folder under/mnt, you can create it through the mkdir command)

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5. Go to the/mnt/cdrom folder, display the contents of the folder, we can see the "vmwaretools-xxx-xxx.tar.gz" End of the package

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   6. Copy the package to the/tmp directory and enter/tmp After unpacking the package, generate the vmware-linux-distrib folder              650) this.width=650, "title=" 5_meitu_5 "style=" border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;padding-top:0px; Padding-left:0px;margin:0px;padding-right:0px;border-top-width:0px;width:689px;height:120px;background-image: none; "border=" 0 "alt=" 5_meitu_5 "src=" Http://s3.51cto.com/wyfs02/M02/87/C1/wKioL1fg-R-hFCX1AACa-iOfkNU248.jpg " Width= "689" height= "hspace=" 0 "vspace=" 0 "/>            

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7. Go to the "vmware-linux-distrib" folder and locate the corresponding installation file *.pl (this is vmware-install.pl)

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8. Run "./vmware-install.pl" to start the installation. In the installation process, if a similar to "[/usr/bin]", "[Yes]", "[No]", we can directly press ENTER. Use all defaults.

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9. Restart the Linux system and the Vmware-tools installation is complete.

How do I verify that the Vmware-tools installation is successful on the Linux platform? You can set a shared test for a folder.

First, after we click "Edit Virtual machine settings", select the "Options" tab.

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Next, click "Shared Folders" to load the folders that are enabled for sharing. Here, the shared folder operation is complete.

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In the "/mnt/hgfs" folder (the folder is not installed Vmware-tools), you see the folder that you just shared.

Here, verify successful completion ...

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How to install VMware Tools for Red Hat Linux