Linux (CentOS 7) command line mode installation VMware Tools detailed

This article mainly describes how to install VMware Tools in the Linux (CentOS 7) command-line mode, which has a certain reference value, and can be consulted by interested partners.

In this example, VMware Tools is installed in Linux (for example, CentOS 7).

1. Start CentOS 7 First, click "VMs" in VMware and click "Install VMware Tools ..." (if installed, show "Reinstall vmware Tools ...").

2. In the command line, enter "Ls/dev" to view.

3. Enter "Mkdir/mnt/cdrom" to create a new folder named CDROM in the/mnt directory.

4. Type "Mount-t Iso9660/dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom" to mount the disc to the/mnt/cdrom directory.

5. Enter "ls/mnt/cdrom/" to view the content, enter "cp/mnt/cdrom/vmwaretools-9.2.0-799703.tar.gz/root/vm.tar.gz" and name " vmwaretools-9.2.0-799703.tar.gz "Copy to the/root directory and rename it to vm.tar.gz.

6. Enter "LS" in the root directory to view the file, enter "Tar-xzf vm.tar.gz" unzip the file, enter "LS" to view the file, you can find the new directory "Vmware-tools-distrib".

7. Enter "CD vmware-tools-distrib/" into the directory named "Vmware-tools-distrib", enter "./vmware-install.pl" to try to install, error "-bash:./ vmware-install.pl:/usr/bin/per:bad interpreter:no such file or directory ", indicating that the compilation environment is not installed.

8. Enter "Yum-y install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel" to start the installation.

9. The prompt has been installed.

10. Re-enter "./vmware-install.pl" in the "Vmware-tools-distrib" directory to start the installation, basically press ENTER.

11.VMware Tools has been installed, prompting you to run the "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl" command to uninstall VMware tools. Run the "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl" command on the first run to configure VMware Tools and press ENTER to run directly.

12. The prompt is installed and ready to use.

13. Enter "/usr/bin/vmware-user" to start the VMware user process and enter "StartX" to start the graphical interface.

14. Select the file (in this case, "test document. docx") and hold down the left mouse button to try dragging the file to the virtual machine.

15. Release the left mouse button and discover that the file has been copied to the virtual machine.

16. If you need to uninstall VMware Tools, enter "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

17. If you need to install in the Gnome GUI graphical interface, simply unzip the file, then right-click in the folder, select "Open in Terminal" and enter "./vmware-install.pl" in Terminal.

Installation failure

18. If a similar error occurred during installation, prompting that Open-vm-tools could not be removed, it may be due to the last installation failure.

19. If the attempt to enter "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl" still cannot be uninstalled, enter "Rpm-e open-vm-tools-desktop" to uninstall and reinstall.

The above is the whole content of this article, I hope that everyone's study has helped.

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Linux (CentOS 7) command line mode installation VMware Tools detailed