Installing Vm-tools for Linux in VMware

1. Select Install Vmware-tools in the virtual machine, or reinstall

2. Create the CDROM folder in the/MNT directory

Mkdir/mnt.cdrom

3. Attach the/dev/cdrom optical drive to the folder you just built

Mount/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom

Check the/mnt/cdrom directory for vmware-tools.tar.gz compressed files

4. Copy the Vm-tools compressed file in the/mnt/cdrom directory to the/tmp directory

CP vmware-tools.tar.gz/tmp

5. Switch to/tmp folder, Cd/tmp can see the current directory has been copied vm-tools compressed files, in the current directory directly extracted files

TAR-ZXVF vmware-tools.tar.gz

6. After the decompression is complete, in the current directory there will be Vmware-tools-distrib folder, which is extracted after the completion of the file, where vmware-install.pl is the command to perform the installation

(Root privilege) vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

All the way to complete the installation

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During installation, if you encounter the path "is not a valid path to the GCC binary.

To install the file, execute the following command

Yum-yUpdateYum-yinstall kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc

Installing Vm-tools for Linux in VMware