Thursday, April 16, 2009

Install VMWare tools on a linux VM

First you select the option VM > Install VMWare Tools... in VMWare workstation. Than an virtual CD is mounted in your Virtual linux machine (/media/VMware_Tools). If this does not happen you should mount the cdrom manually: mount /media/cdrom. This can give an failure but this is error can be ignored.

execute the rpm file:

rpm -ivh VMwareTools-*.rpm


After the rpm is installed the configure perl script can be executed:

cd /usr/bin/
./vmware-config-tools.pl


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3 comments:

  1. I don't have VMWare tools rpm in VMware workstation 6. Where shall I look for? thanks

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  2. I wrote it in the blog:

    First you select the option VM > Install VMWare Tools... in VMWare workstation. Than an virtual CD is mounted in your Virtual linux machine (/media/VMware_Tools). If this does not happen you should mount the cdrom manually: mount /media/cdrom. This can give an failure but this is error can be ignored.

    Kind regards,

    Arjan

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