Install VMware Tools for Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 in VMware

1. First, log on to the text logon interface with your root account and password.

2. Mount the optical drive device, type "Mount-T iso9660/dev/CDROM/mnt" in the command line, and press Enter.

3. After the optical drive is mounted successfully, run the "CD/mnt" command to enter the/mnt directory, and then run the "ls" command to display the content. At this time, we found a file: vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz, which is the Linux installation package of VMware Tools.

4. Then copy the file to the tmp directory and type the "CP/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz/tmp" command.

5. Now that the mission of the VM optical drive is complete, uninstall it and run the "umount/dev/CDROM" command.

6.to decompress the vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz file. First enter the tmp directory, run the "CD/tmp" command, and then run the "Tar zxf vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz" command to decompress it, release it to the directory with the same name (that is, the vmware-Linux-tools directory ).

7. run "CD vmware-Linux-Tools" to enter the decompressed directory, and run the "ls" command to display the content under it. PL is the installation program of VMware Tools.

8. Run the installation program using the "./install. pl" command, and press enter as prompted on the screen. The entire installation process is complete.

After the installation is complete, enter the "startx" command at the command prompt and wait patiently for a moment to see how red hat really works.