Install the Virtual Operating System Using VMware Tools

It is particularly worth mentioning that there are many things worth learning about VMware Tools. Here we mainly introduce VMware Tools, including VMware Tools. Install VMware Tools in Fedora 5 based on the actual situation, I made some corrections to the online steps:

The steps for correctly installing VMware Tools are as follows: VMware Server)

1. Make sure that the Virtual Operating System of VMware Tools is enabled.
2. Press CTRL + ALT to enter the main operating system, click the installation prompt in the VMware Tools status bar, or click VM to select Install vmware tools ....

3. Confirm the installation of VMware Tools. VMware Tools is installed in a virtual operating system, rather than on a physical machine.) Click "Install" on the installation page to see no response, in fact, there is a virtual iso file mounted under (Virtual linux)/dev/cdrom. # Mount-t iso9660/dev/cdrom/mnt load CDROM device, then if you enter the/mnt directory, you will find an additional file: vmware-tools1.0.5.tar.gz. This is the LINUX software package of VMware Tools ,.
# Cp, mnt, vmware-tools1.0.5.tar.gz, tmp
Uninstall CDROM.
# Umount/dev/cdrom (Be sure to remove umount first, because the/mnt directory will be used during the next installation of VMware Tools)
# Cd/tmp
# Tar zxf vmware-tools1.0.5.tar.gz
# Cd vmware-tools-distrib
Enter the decompressed directory
# Vmware-install.pl (run installation script)
Run the installation command.
In this case, install prompts you whether to back up the previous configuration file. We recommend that you select "y ".
Note: The following steps generally select yes, but when you receive a prompt saying whether to manually locate GCC, select NO. Remember.

4. After VMware Tools is installed, start the VMware Tools service.
[Root @ localhost vmware-tools-distrib] # service vmware-tools start
VMware Tools is installed, but it has not been
(Correctly) configured for the running kernel.
To (re-) configure it, invoke the following command:
/Usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
If you want to manually locate GCC, enter NO [root @ localhost vmware-tools-distrib] #
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