VMware8 installs centos's vmtool System Version: CentOS 6 software environment: VMware8.0 many people need to use virtual machines to learn Linux. Today, to share files between the host and virtual machines, VMware-tool is installed on the terminal interface. The following is a record of the graphic interface, just like windows. The following describes the terminal interface. Step 1: click "Install VMware-tool" on the toolbar to automatically attach the ISO image to the optical drive. Step 2: create a directory for mounting mkdir/mnt/cdrom. The name does not matter. Step 3: mount the disc mount/dev/dvdrom/mnt/cdrom Part 4: cd/mnt/cdrom and the tar file of VMwaretools-xxx is displayed. Step 5: cp VMwaretools-xxx your local directory. Because the default CD hanging in the directory does not have the write permission, unzipped to the current position of the Sixth: Enter the local directory you copied to, tar-zxvf VMwaretools-xxx.tar.gz 7: Enter the decompressed directory to execute. /vmware-install.pl to start installation. Part 8: During the installation process, press enter all the way. At last, it seems that no restart is prompted. Then, after setting the local shared directory in the vm, go to the/mnt/directory under the vm and you will find Multiple folders, go in and you will be able to see the shared directory. Now the installation is complete, and press enter all the way. I didn't prompt to restart after I installed it. I should restart it once as I said. If you are interested, you can check the options in each step of the installation process.