To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system using Compiler
To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest
operating system using Compiler:
1.
Ensure that your Linux virtual machine is
powered on.
2.
If you are running a GUI interface, open a
command shell.
Note: Log in as a root user, or use the sudo command to complete each of these steps.
Note: Log in as a root user, or use the sudo command to complete each of these steps.
3.
Click VM in the virtual machine menu, then click Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
4.
Click OK.
Note: In some cases, verify that the CDROM device is Connected from within the Edit Settings option of the virtual machine.
Note: In some cases, verify that the CDROM device is Connected from within the Edit Settings option of the virtual machine.
5.
To create a mount point, run:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
6.
To mount the CDROM, run:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
7.
To copy the Compiler gzip tar file
to a temporary local directory, run:
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version.tar.gz /tmp/
Where version is the VMware Tools package version.
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-version.tar.gz /tmp/
Where version is the VMware Tools package version.
8.
To determine the version of VMware tools, run:
ls /mnt/cdrom
You see output similar to:
# VMwareTools-5.0.0-12124.tar.gz
ls /mnt/cdrom
You see output similar to:
# VMwareTools-5.0.0-12124.tar.gz
9.
To change to the tmp directory
and extract the contents of the tar file into a new directory called vmware-tools-distrib,
run:
cd /tmp
tar -zxvf VMwareTools-version.tar.gz
cd /tmp
tar -zxvf VMwareTools-version.tar.gz
10.
To change directory to vmware-tools-distrib and
run the vmware-install.pl PERL script to install VMware Tools, run:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
11.
Check whether service is started or not.
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