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The advantage of installing Vmtools after installing Linux is to be able to screen full screens and to copy files freely between hosts.

The following is an example of the centos6.2 desktop version, using a virtual machine that is VMware 8.0:

Step: One, click Vm-install VMware Tools ... As shown in figure

Second, after the click, will be generated on the desktop CD-ROM drive is the VMware tools, as shown:

Three, double-click into this disc, the inside of the compressed file (. tar.gz) file copy out to the place can be extracted, which documents the following figure:

Four, on the desktop, open the terminal, direct switch to the root account su root, input password to the root account, using CD command to the desktop: cd/home/xyf/desktop

Here's the command to note that XYF for my first login when the user name (although we switched to the root authority, but the compressed file is still in the account on the desktop,), some are not desktop but desktop display.

Five, decompression out TAR-ZCVF vmwaretools-8.8.0-471268.tar.gz

Hint: Here you can use tap key to fill the yo.

Six, into the unpacked directory CD Vmware-tools-distrib

Start installation Vmtools:./vmware-install.pl (Note that there is a small dot in front of the slash.) ）

After the installation began to ask similar path problems, direct return to the following figure:

If you encounter the question [yes], enter Y-return, as shown below:

If you encounter ask [No] and so on, enter n return can, the following figure:

When you see the following message (enjoy) it means that you have been installed successfully, as shown in the figure:

Eight, at this time has been installed, you need to clean up the installation of the file can be. To delete a compressed file first:

RM vmwaretools-8.8.0-471268.tar.gz (Enter y return if prompted to confirm)

Tip: Here you can select the file directly, and then press DELETE on the keyboard.

Nine, delete the unpacked folder, with Rm-rf vmware-tools-distrib (need root permission)

Ten, restart the computer to complete the installation of Vmtools: Reboot (requires root permissions)

In fact, installation is not so troublesome, just decompression, installation, cleaning can be, here a little detailed list.